Definition of "stock exchange" [stock exchange]

• A place where stocks, bonds, or other securities are bought and sold. (noun)
• An association of stockbrokers who meet to buy and sell stocks and bonds according to fixed regulations. (noun)

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• ""If the stock exchange committee agreed that it was necessary 'to stabilize the market' … and if the great broking firms of Joseph Stern and Arjan Soorjani also agree not to offer any stock, any bulk stock below 28.80, what can Gornt do?""
• "He managed to get his name involved in all sorts of unsavory speculations on the stock exchange and in gambling scandals, invariably, it is true, as a victim; while at least three foreign footlight favorites were expelled from Germany by the police on account of the scandals created by his association with them."
• "The stock exchange beganto triumph and prepared slowly but surely to take the life of the nationinto its guardianship and control."