stock market

1. 1.

   an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers

   Synonymsstock exchangesecurities market

   Broaderexchange

   NarrowerAmerican Stock ExchangeBoursecurb marketNew York Stock Exchangeover-the-counter market

   Part ofmarket

Questions about stock market

What does stock market mean?

stock market means "an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers".

What is another word for stock market?

Close synonyms include stock exchange, securities market. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stock market a common word?

stock market is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.