stock market

noun

1

: stock exchange sense 1

2

a

: a market for particular stocks

b

: the market for stocks throughout a country

Examples of stock market in a Sentence

We lost money in the stock market.

International stock markets saw declines at the end of the trading day.

Recent Examples on the Web

The losses, the biggest drop in US stock market history, were blamed on the Chinese AI chatbot’s use of lower-cost chips and that the free app uses less data at a fraction of the cost of its competitors language assistants. —Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2025

United States stock market 2025 holiday schedule U.S. stock markets will be closed on the following days in 2025: Need a break? —Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025

Overall, Russia's stock market is up 11.1 percent since the beginning of the year, according to Reuters. —Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025

In a sign of the burst of optimism, Russia’s main stock market index jumped 5 percent on Thursday morning to its highest point since last summer, and its battered currency, the ruble, gained against the dollar to its strongest level since September. —Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1809, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

stock market

noun

: stock exchange sense 1

Legal Definition

stock market

noun

1

: stock exchange sense 1

2

: a market for particular stocks

3

: the market for stocks throughout a country