a reduction, especially in an amount of money （尤指资金的）减少，下降◆Most of the Internet-related stocks took a haircut(= lost value) yesterday. 大多数与互联网相关的股票昨天都下跌了。
() an amount of money that dealers take off the price that they pay for shares, bonds, etc. or add to the price that they sell them for, which pays their fee 扣减额（交易商从所支付的股票、债券等的价格中扣除的金额，或者在出售的价格上增加的金额）◆A haircut of 2.5 per cent is applied to each buy/sell-back transaction. 每笔购买／赎回交易有 2.5% 的扣减额。