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stock market

stock market

255 3.1
A place where people buy and sell company shares
  • noun
  • /stɑk ˈmɑrkɪt/
translation icon : mercado de valores
  • Teach him about the stock market.
  • stock market crash
  • trade on the stock market
  • rise of the stock market

And if that crashes the stock market, that's the pensions.

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Examples

  • Many people follow the daily movements of the stock market to make informed investment decisions.

  • In the long run, yes, the broader stock market will go up, right?

  • And I think the reality is, yes, the stock market's down today.

  • So you can see that the biggest stock market in the world is the United States.

  • Are you getting into foreign stock markets or just Chinese?

  • If this were the stock market, what would you do?

  • And in business, the stock market fell through the floor today.

  • We saw the single largest decline in the stock market in two decades.

  • But I think what's important is the stock market still has lots of risk.

  • Savers benefit because the stock market offers them another way to earn money on their savings.

    Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

market
vsstock market
721 3.4

The system where people buy and sell stocks and bonds

is a single system or place concentrating mainly on company shares
exchange
vsstock market
  • Specialized
191 5.8

A place where people buy and sell stocks

is a broader system open beyond member only venues for share trading
stock exchange
vsstock market
  • Specialized
18 3.6

A market where people buy and sell company shares through brokers

is the general system or place focused specifically on shares trading
securities market
vsstock market
  • Jargon
2 4.1

A place where people buy and sell stocks and bonds through brokers

focuses on the buying and selling of company shares rather than all securities
bourse
vsstock market
  • Specialized
1 9.6

A market where people buy and sell stocks and bonds

is the general system centered on trading company shares
stock market bourse
vsstock market
5.5

An organized place where people buy and sell company shares and other investments

is a broader term for a system or place focusing on shares

How Short-Term

to overnight
5 3.2
money market
  • Specialized
15 4.0
bond trading
  • Specialized
1 4.5
stock market
255 3.1
market
721 3.4

Surface Forms

stock market singular
stock markets plural

Morphology

stock + market

The meaning 'a system or place where shares are bought and sold' is directly and compositionally derived from 'stock' (shares) + 'market' (place/exchange), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it. This noun+noun compound follows a common cross-linguistic pattern and has clear equivalents in many languages, supporting full transparency.

Etymology

Stock market comes from stock, an old word for goods or a company's money, and market, a place to trade. Imagine people meeting at a market to buy and sell 'shares', small 'parts of a business', and that picture explains why stock market today means the place or system where 'shares' are bought and sold.