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stock ticker en · NOUN

Meanings

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

Deriveds

stock ticker symbol · tickeritis

Relateds

ticker tape · news ticker

Translations (2)

de Börsenticker (any device or display showing price and volumes of stock trades) · de Börsenticker (device, used primarily in the 20th century)