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There were seats for six people at the table. a car with leather seats He used the box as a seat. He couldn't find his seat in the concert hall. The city recently built a new 1,000-seat theater. She booked a seat on the next flight to Rome. The stool's seat is broken. The chairs have woven seats. The Democrats gained two more seats in the last election. She won a Senate seat.Verb
I could seat you here if you wish. The plans call for a stadium seating 30,000 people.
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Moore has not ruled out another run for the seat in 2020. — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al.com, "Trenton Garmon denies wrongdoing in arrest, says he uses medical marijuana," 12 June 2019 No Republican has stepped forward to run for the seat in the heavily Democratic district, so his election is virtually assured. — Washington Post, "Virginia Democrats worry about ‘Fighting Joe’ Morrissey and his maverick ways," 12 June 2019 Justin Pierce fought long and hard for a seat in this gleaming downtown office building. — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, "5 years and over 300 applications: For those with autism, landing a tech job ‘like winning the lottery’," 11 June 2019 Admission for an individual seat is $100 with a table of 10 available for $1,000. — Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, "Juneteenth celebration takes shape in Missouri City," 10 June 2019 Three decades ago, revelations that the military was paying $435 for a hammer and $640 for an aircraft toilet seat ignited widespread media coverage and public outrage. — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, "The Military-Industrial Virus," 10 June 2019 This postseason, the Blues are 9–3 away from St. Louis, dampening celebrations from Winnipeg to Dallas to San Jose while their home arena has been jammed with fans who paid for a seat and the right to watch on the Enterprise Center jumbotron. — Joan Niesen, SI.com, "On the Road Again: Blues Hope to Rebound as Visitors Like They Have All Season," 10 June 2019 The Service Employees International Union Local 221, which represents thousands of county government employees, endorsed Terra Lawson-Remer in the race for the District 3 seat Friday night. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "County employee union backs Terra Lawson-Remer in District 3 Board of Supervisors race," 8 June 2019 Havrda led in the race for the open seat early on and finished the night with around 57 percent of the vote. — Brian Chasnoff, ExpressNews.com, "Women clinch victory, council majority in runoffs," 8 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
This Saturday, the Duchess of Cambridge arrived to the parade seated next to Camilla Parker Bowles. — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, "Kate Middleton Gave a Touching Nod to Meghan Markle at Trooping the Colour," 8 June 2019 Naturally, Beyoncé and Jay-Z were courtside for the high-stakes game, seated next to the Warriors's owner, Joe Lacob, and his wife Nicole Curran. — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, "Beyoncé's Epic Side-Eye at the Golden State Warriors Game Just Sent Twitter into a Frenzy," 6 June 2019 When Hirohito took a ride down the Mall in an open coach, seated next to the Queen, veterans made plain their indignation. — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, "Donald Trump’s Royal Treatment," 4 June 2019 Lili gave 'gram followers a BTS look at the evening of moon-watching, beginning with a photo that had the pair seated next to one another. — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, "Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse Joked About the Blood Moon on Instagram," 28 July 2018 Justin Bieber by Rihanna One fateful day in February 2011, the then 16-year-old singer was seated next to 23-year-old Rihanna at the NBA All-Star game. — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, "11 Celebrities Who Were Rejected Publicly By Their Famous Crushes," 23 Jan. 2019 Currently, bullets are half-seated in brass casings. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "U.S. Army Getting New Machine Gun Round, Special Ops Getting New Sniper Bullet," 10 May 2018 Housed in a wooden box, the clock face is seated in gold and is protected by a screen, which can be lifted to turn the face over and get the serial number off the back. — Kyrie Long, The Seattle Times, "Family donates ice classic clock UA Museum of the North," 30 Mar. 2019 And for the handful of cases with broader significance, the justices could follow past practices and delay a ruling until a ninth justice is seated. — Gregg Re, Fox News, "GOP senators defend Kavanaugh as exasperation mounts: 'We're in the Twilight Zone,' Graham says," 24 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'seat.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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What It Is
A seat is a license to trade on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, either as an agent for someone else or for his or her own personal accounts (in which case, the person is called a floor trader).
How It Works
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, also known as the Big Board) is the first and most popular stock exchange in the world. It was created in 1792 when two dozen stockbrokers and merchants signed the Buttonwood Agreement. Stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and derivatives all trade on the NYSE.
The NYSE is an auction market where brokers and specialists buy and sell securities for people by matching the highest bidding price with the lowest selling price. When an investor wishes to buy or sell a security listed on the NYSE, he or she "places a trade" or an "order" by calling her broker or going to her online trading account. In either case, the order goes to a broker, who can get the order to the exchange several ways -- through a regional exchange, electronic communications network or directly to the NYSE. No matter how, the order eventually reaches the floor of the NYSE where floor brokers and specialists handle transactions.
Floor brokers execute buy and sell orders on behalf of their clients or the firms they work for. If you wanted to sell some shares of Company XYZ, for example, you might call your broker down the street and place a sell order. Your broker might in turn route the order to one of his firm's floor brokers who are actually on the floor of the exchange. The floor broker approaches the Company XYZ specialist (see below) and executes the trade. Some floor brokers are independent, meaning that they are not employed by any brokerage firm, but provide services to brokerage firms (that is, they work for themselves). In either case, floor brokers are the people doing most of the shouting on the trading floor.
Being a floor broker requires owning a seat on the NYSE.
Why It Matters
Seat holders help ensure an orderly market, which is one of the pillars of a stable financial system. For many, a seat on the NYSE is a symbol of all that is Wall Street. It is the place where fortunes are made and lost, and where the free market can be seen in its most tangible form. The NYSE manages the transfer of trading seats and determines which companies qualify for listing on the exchange. It also investigates and prosecutes violations of NYSE and federal securities regulations and can censure, fine, suspend, expel or bar members.
Although the NYSE expends considerable effort monitoring seat holders, they are also subject to a considerable amount of regulation from several federal agencies, such as the Federal Reserve, and from a host of laws, such as the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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