stock exchange 
noun
1A market in which securities are bought and sold: the company was floated on the stock exchange the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange...
- By the end of the week, its shares may be delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange.
- It operates in 40 securities markets throughout the world, including stock exchanges in Frankfurt, London, Paris and Tokyo.
- The NYSE stands alone among stock exchanges as a candidate for such status.
1.1 (the stock exchange) The level of prices in a particular stock exchange: the biggest rise in the stock exchange in American history...
- Haven't they always prided themselves on doing better than the Stock Exchange through all kinds of markets, bear or bull?
- When they were delisted by the Stock Exchange three months ago, the price was down to 31p.
- Already the prospect of the acquisition has raised an extra £15 million worth of investment on the Stock Exchange.