share market

noun

1. 1. a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
   2. a place where securities are regularly traded
   3. ( as modifier )

      a share-market speculator

2. the prices or trading activity of a share market

   the share market is buoyant

Example Sentences

"Between the chains" is the local expression for the mining exchange, or share market, and a sensitive and unstable market it is.

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What do you think of this rumor that the revolution in Brazil is going to knock out our share market?

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Let us take three main features—the share-market, the foreign loans, and the inflated circulation caused by the provincial banks.

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All at once matters changed; she made a lucky speculation in the share market, and the Pactolus claim began to pay.

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They rushed the share market, and in two weeks the Magpie Reef shares ran from four shillings to as many pounds.

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