stock market

noun

1

: stock exchange sense 1

2

a

: a market for particular stocks

b

: the market for stocks throughout a country

Examples of stock market in a Sentence

We lost money in the stock market.

International stock markets saw declines at the end of the trading day.

Recent Examples on the Web

Get Morning Squawk directly in your inbox CNBC's Morning Squawk recaps the biggest stories investors should know before the stock market opens, every weekday morning. —Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026

That would be negative for stock markets, where investors prefer successive rounds of cheaper money. —Jim Edwards, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026

The news comes as SpaceX prepares for its first-ever public offering on the stock market later this summer, and as a race heats up between it and rival billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to develop a lunar lander for NASA. —Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026

But the stock market is (in theory) something different. —William Mersey, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1809, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for stock market

• nonmarket
• premarket
• upmarket
• aftermarket
• patriarchate
• supermarket

Kids Definition

stock market

noun

: stock exchange sense 1

Legal Definition

stock market

noun

1

: stock exchange sense 1

2

: a market for particular stocks

3

: the market for stocks throughout a country