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stock exchange

noun

  1. a building or place where stocks and other securities are bought and sold.
  2. an association of brokers and dealers in stocks and bonds who meet together and transact business according to fixed rules.


stock exchange

noun

  1. Also calledstock market
    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 )

      stock-exchange prices

      a stock-exchange operator

  2. the prices or trading activity of a stock exchange

    the stock exchange fell heavily today

“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


stock exchange

  1. A place where stocks , bonds , and other securities are bought and sold.


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Notes

In the United States, the two largest stock exchanges are the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Activity on these two exchanges is usually considered an indication of the state of the economy as a whole.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stock exchange1

First recorded in 1765–75
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Example Sentences

Trading companies and stock exchanges are obviously different types of businesses, but the comparison illustrates how retail brokerage has influenced US market structure in recent years.

From Quartz

Basically, a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, is one way that a company can go public and begin selling shares on stock exchanges in order to raise money.

From Digiday

The company, launched by a former co-founder of the IAC-owned Tinder, plans to list its share on the Nasdaq stock exchange, using the ticker symbol “BMBL.”

Agency CEOs would need to believe private equity investors would help them revamp their business faster than they’re doing currently on the stock exchange.

From Digiday

Amata Holding Pcl, a hotel and spa operator, is set to become the seventh company to list on Myanmar’s only stock exchange as the bourse seeks to lure more firms to the platform.

From Fortune

Brokers at the Istanbul stock exchange stood in a minute of silent tribute to the boy.

The SESC could declare the reasons for delisting a company from the stock exchange “classified” for similar reasons.

Here is a list of initial public offerings on the Vienna Stock Exchange.

On Wednesday morning at 8AM, the New York Stock Exchange will open for its last session before the debt ceiling reached.

The move will take place on July 15 as software giant Oracle leaves for the New York Stock Exchange.

Millions of money have actually been put into the affair, and ten times as much is floating in the air of the stock-exchange.

He might just as well go on the Stock Exchange and try to float a company by singing to the brokers.

The Stock Exchange resents the imputation and makes things dangerous for Owen.

The boss gamblers around the railroad post in the Stock Exchange tell him what he has to do and where he has to get off.

There is an excellent leader on the fourth page exposing the scandals of the Stock Exchange.

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