n.

1. A man employed to execute condemned prisoners by hanging.
2. (also -măn) A game in which one player chooses a word whose letters are guessed at by another player. For each wrong guess, a new part of the stick figure of a hanging man is drawn.

A bearish candlestick pattern that forms at the end of an uptrend. It is created when there is a significant sell-off near the market open, but buyers are able to push this stock back up so that it closes at or near the opening price. Generally the large sell-off is seen as an early indication that the bulls (buyers) are losing control and demand for the asset is waning.

Investopedia Says:
This formation does not mean that the bulls have definitively lost control, but it may be an early sign that the momentum is decreasing and the direction of the asset may be getting ready to change. The reliability of this signal is drastically improved when the price of the asset decreases the day after the signal. Hanging man formations can be more easily identified in intraday charts than daily charts and are a very popular formation used by day traders.

If this pattern is found at the end of a downtrend, it is known as a "hammer".

Related Links:
Discover the components and basic patterns of this ancient technical-analysis technique. The Art of Candlestick Charting - Part 1
Learn why crowd psychology is the reason this technique works, and discover how to analyze 'hammers and 'hanging men'. The Art of Candlestick Charting - Part 2
Take a look at continuation patterns and how they can confirm or deny trends. The Art of Candlestick Charting - Part 3
Learn about more continuation patterns on the bullish and bearish sides: the engulfing pattern, harami and harami cross. The Art of Candlestick Charting - Part 4

A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

n.

An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered -- the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an executioner who hangs the condemned person

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - bøddel, galge

Nederlands (Dutch)
beul

Français (French)
n. - bourreau, potence

Deutsch (German)
n. - Henker

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - απαγχονιστής, δήμιος

Italiano (Italian)
boia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - carrasco (m)

Русский (Russian)
палач

Español (Spanish)
n. - verdugo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - bödel

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
绞刑吏, 刽子手

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 絞刑吏, 劊子手

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 교수형 집행자

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 絞首刑執行人

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الجلاد, الشانق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תליין‬

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