stock ticker
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4.3
- noun
- /stɑk ˈtɪkər/
- Specialized
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ticker de acciones
Examples
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For those who don't know, MCD to this day is still the stock ticker symbol for McDonald's.
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But the old symbols, with so little reflection behind them, were not very convincing, no more than the bald eagles we saw staring defiantly at the cable news anchors in the margins, above the stock tickers.
Academic text (2008) -
The stock ticker updated continuously, providing investors with real-time price movements.
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At the conference, she watched the stock ticker display financial information from various markets.
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Many trading floors have a stock ticker that alerts brokers to the latest stock prices.
Synonyms
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4.6
A moving line of short headlines and stock prices on a screen
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6.3
A large electronic screen at the New York Stock Exchange that shows stock prices and activity
A horizontal electronic display that shows live news or stock prices
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'stock' (shares/prices) combined with 'ticker' (a scrolling display or device) yields a device/display that shows stock prices. This noun–noun formation follows a common, cross-linguistic compounding pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun stock ticker comes from old machines that printed stock prices on a long paper ribbon and made a ticking noise. People called these machines tickers, so today a stock ticker is any device or screen that shows 'real-time stock prices'.