Big Board
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4.6
- noun
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Bolsa de Nueva York
- Big Board stocks
- Big Board volume
- Big Board chairman
Examples
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Jeremy looks at the BIG BOARD reflecting Peter's move, then over at Erica.
Fiction book (1992) -
Investors closely monitor the latest updates displayed on the Big Board at the New York Stock Exchange.
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Stock prices fluctuate throughout the day as traders react to news on the Big Board.
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Every morning, trading begins promptly on the Big Board in the heart of Wall Street.
Synonyms
119
4.2
A large stock market in New York City where people buy and sell company shares
35
2.6
A large place in New York where people buy and sell shares of companies
A large place in New York where people buy and sell company shares
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'big' and 'board' transparently yield the idea of a large display or notice board, so a B1 learner who knows both words will likely infer a general meaning of a large sign or display. However, the specific, conventionalized sense referring to a stock-exchange price display (and as a proper-name for the NYSE) is a specialized, domain-specific extension that is not fully predictable from the parts, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
Big Board may come from a time when the New York stock exchange had a very large price board on the trading floor. Everyone watched that big board, so the name came to mean 'the New York Stock Exchange'.