Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A stock exchange, especially one in a continental European city.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stock exchange; specifically, the stock exchange of Paris, and hence used of continental European exchanges in general.
  • noun The bag of a wig. See bag, 3.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A stock exchange.
  • noun A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the stock exchange in Paris

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, purse, bourse, from Late Latin bursa, bag; see bursa.]

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From French bourse. Compare burse.

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Examples

  • The value of the TSE, which isn't listed, will be calculated at around 1.7 times that of the Osaka bourse, the person said.

    Japan Exchanges to Merge Kana Inagaki 2011

  • The TSE focuses on cash stock transactions while the Osaka bourse operates a derivates trading platform that carries the widely traded Nikkei 225 share index futures contract.

    Japan's Exchanges to Begin Merger Talks Kana Inagaki 2011

  • The move was seen aimed at propping up the Kuwaiti bourse, which is up 0.8% this year.

    Gulf's Oil-Fired Boom Is at Risk 2008

  • The Polish bourse, which is 99%-state-owned, said last week it wanted a strategic partnership with a large Western exchange, having ruled out selling a stake to a rival because of this month's change in the country's government.

    Exchanges Point to East 2007

  • Capitalised at $2.2 billion, the bourse is the fourth largest in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • The bourse was the largest for palladium futures at the time.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • The Osaka bourse would remain listed on the Jasdaq exchange, the country's biggest market for start-up companies, after the transaction, the person said.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Osaka Securities Exchange Co. jumped 6.9 percent to 460,000, its steepest advance since August 2009, after the Tokyo Stock Exchange said it aims to hold merger discussions with the Osaka bourse operator.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • "The bourse is a black box that still hasn't been opened," said Ashraf Khairy, who added he holds 2.4 million Egyptian pounds $408,302 in stocks and is 400,000 pounds in debt.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • "The bourse is a black box that still hasn't been opened," said Ashraf Khairy, who added he holds 2.4 million Egyptian pounds $408,302 in stocks and is 400,000 pounds in debt.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

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