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

In 2024, Evergrande received a liquidation order from a Hong Kong court, and was kicked off the Hong Kong stock exchange last year, bringing an end to a tumultuous boom-and-bust saga. —Reuters, NBC news, 14 Apr. 2026

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, the city’s stock exchange operator, calculated that companies that debuted in 2025 had an average first-day return of 40%. —Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026

Since 2021, the state has been grappling with slowing economic output, weaning itself off a property market bubble, and trying to find a balance between promoting a free market and stock exchange within a one-party autocracy. —Joseph Wilkins,sean Conlon, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2026

Aramco was listed in the stock exchange three years later but in Riyadh, not New York. —Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 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