1. a. A place where stocks or securities are bought and sold. b. The traffic in stocks and shares at such a place.
1809. R. Langford, Introd. Trade, 55. The dividend warrants … can be sold in the Stock Market.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., III. vi. 370. He never grew giddy with the hazards of the stock-market.
1912. Times, 19 Dec., 16/3. Stock markets on the whole were steady at the close, after opening dull.
2. A cattle-market; trade in live stock.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Stock-market,… a place for the sale of cattle.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer, xxiii. A favourable change would take place in the stock-market.
