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 bourse operator’s 1Q earnings could be partly driven by a risk-on trading environment earlier in the quarter, before the Middle East conflict broke out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 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
She added the bourse operator would "carefully consider" market calls to broaden the scope of confidential IPO filings.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
The bourse only raised $248 million in first nine months of the year, the lowest amount in 35 years, according to Bloomberg data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
There sat the judge with his assistants about him; traders discussed the price of goods; the place was at once a bourse and a tribunal.
From History Of Ancient Civilization by Charles Seignobos
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
Releasing some of the cash would allow Iran’s leaders to increase the value of the country’s currency and lower inflation, said Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, chief executive of the economics-focused think tank, the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 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
Her husband had been a merchant, and in his later years had gambled successfully on the Bourse.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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