share market
Britishnoun
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a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
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a place where securities are regularly traded
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a share-market speculator
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the prices or trading activity of a share market
the share market is buoyant
Example Sentences
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Australia’s share market has joined the festive cheer, with the ASX index rising 0.4% in the Christmas Eve session, with financial stocks, mining and gas companies and tech among the gainers.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2021
The company also plans to list its logistics arm in the first half of next year, in a share market debut that it expects could raise up to $3bn.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2020
Australia could soon see the world's first direct share market listing of a virtual currency exchange, in a sign of how rapidly bitcoin businesses are entering the mainstream.
From Reuters ● Dec. 2, 2014
In Europe, a resolution of Italy’s two-month political stalemate through the formation of a new coalition government at the weekend boosted sentiment on the bonds of heavily-indebted euro zone governments and the share market.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2013
He had never been much versed in such matters on his own account, and was knowing neither in the ways of the share market, nor in the prices of land.
From Framley Parsonage by Trollope, Anthony
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