Big Board

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. the New York Stock Exchange.

Big Board

noun

1. the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange

2. the New York Stock Exchange

big board

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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Big Board¹

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25

Example Sentences

“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.”

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While banking and insurance issues had dominated early Wall Street, by 1856, the value of railroad stocks and bonds was greater than everything else combined, according to Sobel in “The Big Board.”

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Most countries had faced higher tariffs - as illustrated on Donald Trump's big board - such as on electronics manufacturers in East Asia and they want to keep the levy at the 10% rate.

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And this week's manifestation of that was the imaginative equation created by the US Trade Representative to generate the numbers on Trump's big board.

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The truth is, luck had nothing to do with it: Larson, played here by Paul Walter Hauser, had memorized the five patterns of seemingly random blinking lights on the Big Board, successfully avoided whammies and took CBS for an unprecedented sum.

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Related Words

• exchange