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share market

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noun

    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

  1. the prices or trading activity of a share market

    the share market is buoyant

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The rise in share market gauges in Asia on Wednesday was matched by a fall in U.S.

From Reuters Jul. 21, 2021

Shares of JD Health have surged 34% above the issue price in Hong Kong's biggest share market debut of 2020.

From BBC Dec. 7, 2020

From Melbourne, my colleague Martin Farrer explains: The Australian share market has slipped to its lowest level for more than two years after the benchmark ASX/S&P 200 index suffered its sixth successive day of losses.

From The Guardian Dec. 15, 2015

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

In Undy's office they continued from one noon till the next, incessantly; even in his dreams he was working in the share market.

From The Three Clerks by Trollope, Anthony

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