stock exchange
noun
1
: a place where security trading is conducted on an organized system
2
: an association of people organized to provide an auction market among themselves for the purchase and sale of securities
Examples of stock exchange in a Sentence
domestic and international stock exchanges
Shares of the company were trading at $20 on the New York Stock Exchange.
He works as a stockbroker on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
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Wall Street and global stock exchanges took a sharp nosedive Thursday as investors braced for the possibility of a recession, after Trump imposed higher tariffs on dozens of countries − including some of America’s biggest trading partners.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
The decision to go public in the U.S. is a significant blow to European stock exchanges, which have struggled to retain homegrown tech companies.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2025
The trading floor of the Euronext stock exchange in Paris on Feb. 20.Nathan Laine / Bloomberg / Getty Images
To be sure, an exuberant few weeks on European and British trading floors hardly portend a broad or lasting economic revival.
—Steve Kopack, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Held at the Palais Brongniart, Paris’s former stock exchange, each look appeared with a number displayed behind them, a nod to early haute couture presentations, when models would carry cards with their look numbers.
—Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
The decision to go public in the U.S. is a significant blow to European stock exchanges, which have struggled to retain homegrown tech companies.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2025
The trading floor of the Euronext stock exchange in Paris on Feb. 20.Nathan Laine / Bloomberg / Getty Images
To be sure, an exuberant few weeks on European and British trading floors hardly portend a broad or lasting economic revival.
—Steve Kopack, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Held at the Palais Brongniart, Paris’s former stock exchange, each look appeared with a number displayed behind them, a nod to early haute couture presentations, when models would carry cards with their look numbers.
—Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Stock exchange.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stock%20exchange. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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