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stock ticker

stock ticker noun: a device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available.

Noun

stock ticker (plural stock tickers)

  1. A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available.
    • ... whose instruments are located directly on the floor of the Exchange, who transmit them instantly to the quotation companies, and in a few seconds the prices are carried by the stock-ticker into the brokers' office, the banks, banking houses...1893, Clarence W. Barron, Joseph Gregory Martin, The Boston Stock Exchange
  2. Any device or display showing price and volumes of stock trades as the data become available.

Forms of stock ticker

pluralstock tickers
alternative formstock-ticker
alternative formstockticker

Words formed from stock ticker

Questions about stock ticker

What does stock ticker mean?
Stock ticker means a device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available.
What part of speech is stock ticker?
Stock ticker is a noun.
What is the plural of stock ticker?
The plural of stock ticker is stock tickers.

Words near stock ticker in the dictionary

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  8. stock ticker symbols
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