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 650,000-barrels a day refinery plans to list shares on multiple African stock exchanges by September this year, according to its billionaire founder Aliko Dangote, beginning with the Lagos stock market where his cement unit is the largest by market capitalization at nearly $13 billion. —Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 12 June 2026

Recent changes made by major stock exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq mean newly public companies can be added to passive index funds such as the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 almost immediately. —Allie Canal, NBC news, 11 June 2026

The plan is to push for the creation of a stock exchange in which Cubans on the island can participate. —Sarah Moreno june 4, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026

Most of China’s AI semiconductor companies and their suppliers are traded on the mainland stock exchange. —Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 3 June 2026

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