stock ticker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stock ticker
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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There is no stock ticker, no brokerage-account access and no public-equity wrapper for these businesses.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025
Intel, whose stock ticker is INTC, uses the x86 chip architecture in making the processors that act as the main computing brains for PCs and servers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
While the telegraph and railroad were innovations meant for general use, the stock ticker was the first advancement designed specifically for trading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
Apparently he was on his phone or looking at fish or looking at a stock ticker.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2023
Milo had never imagined a machine so beautiful as a stock ticker before.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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