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

The darkened space was lit mainly by the Big Board—a massive wall of screens displaying maps plotting the positions of SAC planes and enemy forces.

From Literature

“We’ll have that game on the big board.”

From Los Angeles Times

“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

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• exchange