A market for the buying and selling of public securities; the place or building where this is done; an association of brokers and jobbers who transact business in a particular place or market.
Often with capital initials as the name of a particular building, esp. that in the City of London.
1773. Lond. Chron., 13–15 July, 50/3. Yesterday the Brokers and others at New Jonathan’s, came to a resolution, that instead of its being called New Jonathan’s, it should be named ‘The Stock Exchange,’ which is to be wrote over the door.
1809. Morn. Herald, 18 May, 3/3. Yesterday, being a Holiday, no Business was done at the Stock Exchange.
1887. Encycl. Brit., XXII. 557/1. In active times the business transacted daily on the London stock exchange amounts to an enormous total.
1905. Miss Broughton, Waif’s Progr., ii. 17. He is on the Stock Exchange!
