Big Board
Americannoun
noun
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the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
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the New York Stock Exchange
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The term is used sometimes to mean the New York Stock Exchange itself.
Etymology
Origin of Big Board
An Americanism dating back to 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Named for a wooden palisade running along its north side, protecting then-New Amsterdam from British attack, Wall Street was “a colorful place during the colonial era,” Robert Sobel writes in The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market.
From Barron's
Named for a wooden palisade running along its north side, protecting then-New Amsterdam from British attack, Wall Street was “a colorful place during the colonial era,” Robert Sobel writes in The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market.
From Barron's
The darkened space was lit mainly by the Big Board—a massive wall of screens displaying maps plotting the positions of SAC planes and enemy forces.
From Literature
“We’ll have that game on the big board.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Business finally awoke to the potential of such devices,” writes historian Robert Sobel in “The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market.”
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