stock market

a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.

the market for stocks throughout a nation: The stock market reacted strongly to the president's speech.

Origin of stock market

First recorded in 1800–10

Now, stock-market milestones are obviously symbolic and generally meaningless.

Priceline Stock Breaks Through $1,000 Barrier |William O’Connor |September 19, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Shiller reminds us that Japan, which had a dual housing and stock-market bubble, saw two lost decades for housing.

Housing Expert Robert Shiller Isn’t Sure Housing Is Back |Matthew Zeitlin |September 18, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
But what about all the investment we have seen, even the uptick in the stock-market?

Why Dan Senor is Wrong |Bernard Avishai |August 2, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
First, no one I spoke to was obsessing with the stock-market paroxysms.

GOP Players’ Iowa Test |John Avlon |August 11, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

Shares in LinkedIn doubled in its stock-market debut Thursday morning—and then kept rising.

LinkedIn's Market 'Insanity' |Gary Rivlin |May 19, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Its homage will never be commanded by peace, presented as the tutelary deity of the stock-market.

The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future |A. T. Mahan
A hurrying broker's clerk smiled superciliously, recognizing a stock-market loser talking of himself to himself, as they all do.

H. R. |Edwin Lefevre
They were stock-market gamblers, manipulators pure and simple.

North of Fifty-Three |Bertrand W. Sinclair
You think the stock-market has a very cheerful look, even with Erie—of which you are a large holder—down to seventy-five.

Dream Life |Donald G. Mitchell
Iron, more sensitive than the stock-market, was the barometer, and its readings in the Southern field were growing portentous.

The Quickening |Francis Lynde

stock market

another name for stock exchange (def. 1)

the usual US name for stock exchange (def. 2)

stock market

A market in which stocks are bought and sold (see stock exchange). Also, the general condition of the sale of securities in a corporation.