stock exchange

noun

1

: a place where security trading is conducted on an organized system

2

: an association of people organized to provide an auction market among themselves for the purchase and sale of securities

Examples of stock exchange in a Sentence

domestic and international stock exchanges

Shares of the company were trading at $20 on the New York Stock Exchange.

He works as a stockbroker on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Recent Examples on the Web

The drops represented the company’s single worst trading days on both stock exchanges. —Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2025

Indeed, while some other big media groups, such as ITV and Fremantle, have battled the industry’s headwinds in the last couple years, Banijay Entertainment, whose parent company Banijay Group is listed on the Amsterdam stock exchange, has been delivering strong numbers. —Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025

Local retail investors were big sellers of Saudi stocks to foreigners in September, the latest stock exchange data show. —Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025

Investors talk at a stock exchange hall on February 3, 2017 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. —Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1773, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for stock exchange

• interchange
• rearrange
• arrange
• derange
• estrange
• midrange
• change
• grange
• mange
• range
• strange

Kids Definition

stock exchange

noun

1

: a place where the buying and selling of stocks is conducted

2

: an association of stockbrokers

Legal Definition

stock exchange

noun

1

: a place where security trading is conducted on an organized system

2

: an association or group of people organized to provide an auction market among themselves for the purchase and sale of securities