bourse

[ boo rs ]

/ bʊərs /

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noun

a stock exchange, especially the stock exchange of certain European cities.

RELATED WORDS

exchange, board, Amex, NASDAQ, OTC

Nearby words

Origin of bourse

1835–45; < French: literally, purse; see bursa

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Examples from the Web for bourse

Paul Smith filled the Bourse de Commerce with its copper cupola in June for his menswear show.
Paris’s Secret Fashion Week Haunts|Liza Foreman|July 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Once the bluest chip on the São Paulo bourse, worth $35 billion in 2011, OGX is trading at a few cents a share.
The Rise And Fall Of Brazilian Billionaire Eike Batista|Mac Margolis|November 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It was in vain to talk to him of the rates of foreign exchange in the mystic jargon of the Bourse.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844|Various
It was very different from the terrible excitement and noise of the Paris Bourse.
Saunterings|Charles Dudley Warner

Already unfavorable reports, vague as yet, were in circulation on the Bourse.
The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)|Alphonse Daudet
I should have speculated on the Bourse, as she did, with Hafner's counsel.
Cosmopolis, Complete|Paul Bourget
The public is allowed to visit the Bourse from nine in the morning till five at night.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil|David W. Bartlett

British Dictionary definitions for bourse

Bourse

/ (bʊəs) /

noun

a stock exchange of continental Europe, esp Paris

Word Origin for Bourse

C19: from French, literally: purse, from Medieval Latin bursa, ultimately from Greek: leather

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Word Origin and History for bourse

bourse

"stock exchange," 1570s, burse, from Old French borse "money bag, purse" (12c.), from Medieval Latin bursa "a bag" (see purse (n.)). French spelling and modern sense of "exchange for merchants" is first recorded 1845, from the name of the Paris stock exchange. The term originated because in 13c. Bruges the sign of a purse (or perhaps three purses), hung on the front of the house where merchants met.