bourse
noun
a stock exchange, especially the stock exchange of certain European cities.
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bourse
American
[boors]
/ bʊərs /
noun
Bourse
British
/ bʊəs /
noun
Etymology
Origin of bourse
1835–45; < French: literally, purse; see bursa
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The London-based exchange is owned by bourse operator Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
The Dubai bourse was down 4.7 percent while Abu Dhabi's ADX fell 3.5 percent shortly after markets opened.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
Glencore is the stand-out performer, rising more than 8.5% to lead the bourse after it said it was in talks with rival Rio Tinto on a possible combination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
KK Mart has also reportedly said it had to cancel a planned listing on the Malaysian bourse due to the crisis.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
The delay began to tell on the bourse at Antwerp.
From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Ernest Rhys
For Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, who heads the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, the UAE has not changed its Iran strategy, but it is under US pressure to contribute to the US economic sanctions campaign.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“The sectors hit hardest by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes represent the core pillars of employment and production,” Kahalzadeh wrote for the London-based Bourse & Bazaar Foundation think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
In a day that mixed heavy rain and bursts of hot sunshine, the King was crowded round closely by visitors at a festival at the city's Place de la Bourse.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023
Yet last Friday, protesters in Paris poured orange paint directly onto a silver Charles Ray sculpture outside the Bourse de Commerce contemporary art space.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
I heard afterwards that our cheques had a brisk circulation on the Constantinople Bourse.
From Caught by the Turks by Francis Yeats-Brown
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