trading floor
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈtreɪdɪŋ flɔr/
- Specialized
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sala de operaciones
- Go to a trading floor on Wall Street.
And I literally go running across the trading floor, right, and pick up the phone for Peter Hirsch, OK.
- And I literally go running across the trading floor, right, and pick up the phone for Peter Hirsch, OK.
- And the first time I really kind of had a big confrontation with a bank was when people were dropping dead on the trading floor of heart attacks.
- There's a floor called the trading floor, and the various brokers meet there, just like in Jonathan's coffee house.
- And this suggests to them that the shutdown of the trading floor, and not just the economic harm of the pandemic, is what made trading less efficient.
- So the pressure on a trading floor is much more on the individual and the changes in his performance are a lot more acute.
Examples
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You manage the trading floor and the settlements office, is that right?
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Stocks fell Friday as downgrade rumors reached the trading floors of Europe and the United States.
Blog text (8) -
- Well, 15 years ago, I would go down... To the trading floor dressed like Don Johnson.
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I have 27 years of trading floor experience.
Blog text (34) -
So the pressure on a trading floor is much more on the individual and the changes in his performance are a lot more acute.
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Members of the Exchange gather buy and sell orders that are then sent to its trading floor.
Academic text (1992) -
The tour ended at a gallery overlooking the trading floor.
Blog text (31) -
The specialists on the trading floor have a central role in executing orders.
Academic text (2016) -
Working on the trading floor, floor brokers obtain trading information quickly and seize liquidity opportunistically.
Academic text (2016) -
The bustling trading floor was filled with agents shouting to execute their orders.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositionally transparent: 'trading' (the act of exchanging securities) modifies 'floor' (a physical area/level), so a learner can infer it denotes the place where trading happens. This is a standard noun–noun/location construction found cross-linguistically, making the meaning predictable for a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Trading floor comes from places where people did their trading while standing together on one open floor, shouting prices and making deals in the same room. So, it now means 'the busy central area where people buy and sell stocks or other goods'.