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  Big Board

  noun

  the New York Stock Exchange.
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  The huge electronic board at the New York Stock Exchange that reports the changing values of stocks traded on the exchange.

Big Board

American  

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. the New York Stock Exchange.

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Big Board British  

noun

1. the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange

2. the New York Stock Exchange

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big board Cultural  

1. The huge electronic board at the New York Stock Exchange that reports the changing values of stocks traded on the exchange.

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The term is used sometimes to mean the New York Stock Exchange itself.

Etymology

Origin of Big Board

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25

Example Sentences

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The Big Board mandated that frequency for most listed companies in 1939.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The Western Railroad of Massachusetts reported that 2,331 individuals owned shares in 1838, and the Pennsylvania topped 2,600, Robert Sobol writes in The Big Board External link: A History of the New York Stock Market.

From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026

“Business finally awoke to the potential of such devices,” writes historian Robert Sobel in “The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025

The Big Board said it would reverse some trades and let member firms request compensation for losses tied to the problem, though undoing some transactions could affect sales on other exchanges.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

The same general idea appears in The Big Board by Kilgore Trout.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big board in the Sunset Boulevard shopfront of Musicians Contact Service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025

There’s only one player this year from outside the Power 5 ranked in the top 50 on the big board for Pro Football Focus with Toledo cornerback Quinyon Mitchell projected as a first-rounder.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

KYIV, Ukraine — The big board at Kyiv’s central train station has for months been a long list of destinations that were unreachable because of the war.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022

Then it’ll be the men’s turn to do flippy-twisty things in the freeslopestyle qualifiers and the big board final.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2022

Next to the targets was a big board that had a thick, dark green forest painted on it.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Related Words

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