Originally: †a place for the conversion of money or bullion (obsolete). Later: a place where merchants or bankers transact business; an exchange (now…

A meeting-place of merchants for transaction of business; an Exchange. Obsolete. (See bourse, n.)

A building in which the merchants of a town assemble for the transaction of business. Cf. burse, n. 3b, change, n. 2.

A place or institution in which commodities are traded; an exchange, a mart. Also figurative.

= trade hall n. at compounds 3.

a hall used as a meeting-place by members or representatives of a trade, businesspeople, etc.

An exchange, or place of meeting for merchants; the money-market (of a foreign town). Used esp. of the French institution corresponding to the…