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Big Board

noun

(sometimes lowercase)
  1. the New York Stock Exchange.


Big Board

noun

  1. the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
  2. the New York Stock Exchange
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

big board

  1. The huge electronic board at the New York Stock Exchange that reports the changing values of stocks traded on the exchange.
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Notes

The term is used sometimes to mean the New York Stock Exchange itself.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Big Board1

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25
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Most countries had faced higher tariffs - as illustrated on Donald Trump's big board - such as on electronics manufacturers in East Asia and they want to keep the levy at the 10% rate.

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And this week's manifestation of that was the imaginative equation created by the US Trade Representative to generate the numbers on Trump's big board.

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The truth is, luck had nothing to do with it: Larson, played here by Paul Walter Hauser, had memorized the five patterns of seemingly random blinking lights on the Big Board, successfully avoided whammies and took CBS for an unprecedented sum.

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Hauser gives this head-toss an element of ecstasy as his Larson enters into a kind of Big Board flow state, dodging whammies even as the producers lob psychological obstacles his way in an attempt to throw him off.

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Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big board in the Sunset Boulevard shopfront of Musicians Contact Service.

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