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stock exchange
a. A market for the buying and selling of public securities; the place or building where this is done; an association of brokers and jobbers who transact business in a particular place or market.
Often with capital initials as the name of a particular building, esp. that in the City of London.
1773Lond. Chron. 13–15 July 50/3 Yesterday the Brokers and others at New Jonathan's, came to a resolution, that instead of its being called New Jonathan's, it should be named ‘The Stock Exchange,’ which is to be wrote over the door. 1809Morn. Herald 18 May 3/3 Yesterday, being a Holiday, no Business was done at the Stock Exchange. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 557/1 In active times the business transacted daily on the London stock exchange amounts to an enormous total. 1905R. Broughton Waif's Progr. ii. 17 He is on the Stock Exchange!
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1849J. Francis Chronicles & Characters Stock Exchange xv. 288 It was proved that one million had been wasted in commissions and military preparations; in Stock Exchange transactions and Stock Exchange jobbing. 1877R. Giffen (title) Stock Exchange securities. 1922Joyce Ulysses 521, I shall..suck my thumping good Stock Exchange cigar. 1940T. S. Eliot East Coker iii. 11 The Stock Exchange Gazette, the Directory of Directors. 1957Encycl. Brit. XXI. 420/1 After 1954 all members of the council (from 30 to 36 in number) were to be elected by stock exchange members generally. |