stock exchangen.
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.
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stock exchange1773
S.E.1927
main market1981
stock-market-
1773 London 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.
1809 Morning Herald 18 May 3/3 Yesterday, being a Holiday, no Business was done at the Stock Exchange.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 557/1 In active times the business transacted daily on the London stock exchange amounts to an enormous total.
1905 R. Broughton Waif's Progress ii. 17 He is on the Stock Exchange!
b. attributive.
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stock-jobbing1697
stockbroking1792
stock exchange1849
stock-market1930
1849 J. Francis Chron. & Char. 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.
1877 R. Giffen (title) Stock Exchange securities.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 499 I shall..suck my thumping good Stock Exchange cigar.
1940 T. S. Eliot East Coker iii. 11 The Stock Exchange Gazette, the Directory of Directors.
1957 Encycl. 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.
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