stock-marketn.
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a. A place where stocks or securities are bought and sold.
b. The traffic in stocks and shares at such a place.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > traffic in stocks and shares
market1814
stock-market1852
undertone1897
1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 55 The dividend warrants..can be sold in the Stock Market.
1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. II. vi. 111 He never grew giddy with the hazards of the stock-market.
1912 Times 19 Dec. 16/3 Stock markets on the whole were steady at the close, after opening dull.
c. attributive.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adjective]
stock-jobbing1697
stockbroking1792
stock exchange1849
stock-market1930
1930 W. 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.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 7/1 Speed of communication and movement makes possible at the same time such diverse facts as stock-market operations, international armies, [etc.].
1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxi. 207 The classified ads (and stock-market quotations) are the bedrock of the press.
1977 Listener 17 Apr. 204/1 The great stock market crash of 1929.
2. A cattle-market; trade in livestock.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > for other specific goods
woman market1443
bigg-marketa1733
stock-market1858
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stock-market,..a place for the sale of cattle.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xxiii A favourable change would take place in the stock~market.
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