share market
a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
a place where securities are regularly traded
(as modifier): a share-market speculator
the prices or trading activity of a share market: the share market is buoyant
- Also called: stock exchange
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How to use share market in a sentence
"Between the chains" is the local expression for the mining exchange, or share market, and a sensitive and unstable market it is.
Impressions of South Africa | James BryceWhat do you think of this rumor that the revolution in Brazil is going to knock out our share market?
The Sign of the Spider | Bertram MitfordLet us take three main features—the share-market, the foreign loans, and the inflated circulation caused by the provincial banks.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long | Charles ReadeAll at once matters changed; she made a lucky speculation in the share market, and the Pactolus claim began to pay.
Madame Midas | Fergus HumeThey rushed the share market, and in two weeks the Magpie Reef shares ran from four shillings to as many pounds.
Madame Midas | Fergus Hume
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