ticker
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈtɪkər/
- Archaic
:
teletipo
- Outfitted with a New York Stock Exchange ticker, each shop would post quotations as they came in.
- ticker tape
- stock ticker
- ticker machine
And in fact, they had they had ticker machines that would, they were electronic printers that would print out stock quotes.
- And in fact, they had they had ticker machines that would, they were electronic printers that would print out stock quotes.
- But that message, when you type that message, the ticker tape would go from the compute the, the ticker tape machine teleprinter to the other side of the world.
Examples
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For brief periods in 1989, entire businesses and public offices were emptied as employees left for their brokers' offices to watch ticker tapes.
Academic text (1991) -
However, the telegraph office always keeps a carbon of the ticker tape for 24 hours.
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I got half a story on the ticker tape at my club.
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All that was missing was the ticker tape.
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Amy still studies the ticker tape.
Fiction book (1994) -
No ticker-tape parade in New York?
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Sanitation workers in Manhattan were sweeping up Neil Armstrong's ticker tape.
Fiction book (2001) -
Baseball's greatest manager, Connie Mack, was given a massive ticker tape parade on Broadway.
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With a storm of cheers and a blizzard of ticker tape... New York welcomes back Eudora Fletcher... and Leonard Zelig, the human chameleon.
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The stock prices updated frequently on the ticker in the trading room.
Synonyms
1
4.3
A machine or screen that shows live stock prices and financial data
1
8.7
A long narrow strip of paper that shows stock prices printed by a machine
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ticker for the old stock printer comes from the tiny sound tick that the printing machines made as they printed prices. People called the machines and the thin paper 'ticker tape' after that sound, so ticker means the device that printed stock information.