share market

noun Australian and NZ

  1. a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
  2. a place where securities are regularly traded
  3. (as modifier)a share-market speculator
the prices or trading activity of a share market the share market is buoyant
Also called: stock exchange

Words nearby share market

share account, share and share alike, share certificate, share draft, share index, share market, share of voice, share option, share premium, share shop, share-milker

Example sentences from the Web for share market

  • Why, what have we been doing these last months but buying into this share-market?

    One Of Them |Charles James Lever

  • Let us take three main features—the share-market, the foreign loans, and the inflated circulation caused by the provincial banks.

    Love Me Little, Love Me Long |Charles Reade

  • The crittur was in the share-market, and got his soup too hot!

    One Of Them |Charles James Lever