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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Shares in Westpac fell 2.2 percent, under-performing the wider share market.
From Reuters • Nov. 19, 2019
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 the past few weeks the impact has been writ large on share market screens.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2015
It’s the role of marketing to champion the voice of the customer and to share market insights that lead the company.
From Forbes • Jan. 7, 2015
Afterwards, when what was called the company mania broke out, rotten scrip and a rigged share market gave him more scope for speculation, and he became a comparatively respectable member of society.
From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Belgrave, Dalrymple J.
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