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ˈstock-ˌmarket
1. a. A place where stocks or securities are bought and sold. b. The traffic in stocks and shares at such a place.
1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 55 The dividend warrants..can be sold in the Stock Market. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. vi. 370 He never grew giddy with the hazards of the stock-market. 1912Times 19 Dec. 16/3 Stock markets on the whole were steady at the close, after opening dull.
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1930W. C. Brooks How Stock Market Really Works viii. 121 There followed closely upon the Hatry crash the break of the stock market boom in New York. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 7 Speed of communication and movement makes possible at the same time such diverse facts as stock-market operations, international armies, [etc.]. 1964― Understanding Media xxi. 207 The classified ads (and stock-market quotations) are the bedrock of the press. 1977Listener 17 Apr. 204/1 The great stock market crash of 1929.
2. A cattle-market; trade in live stock.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Stock-market,..a place for the sale of cattle. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xxiii, A favourable change would take place in the stock⁓market. |