bourses

Noun

bourse (plural bourses)

1. A stock exchange.
   • In brief, Le Chiffre plans, we believe, to follow the example of most other desperate till-robbers and make good the deficit in his accounts by gambling. The 'Bourse' is too slow.1953, Ian Fleming, “Dossier for M”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 17
   1. (figuratively) Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
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2. A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
3. The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.