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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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It comes after the company has faced controversies in recent years and has flagged it may pursue a share market listing.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2023

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

Lawmakers began to complain about the distortion the BOJ's huge presence was causing in the share market.

From Reuters Sep. 12, 2021

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

As, however, I am anxious to avoid dropping a word here that could influence the share market in the slightest degree, I limit myself to this general statement of opinion.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall

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