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stock market

 
/ˈstɑk ˌmɑr·kɪt/ n [C]

Definition

the value of all investments that are traded: Rumors about the president’s illness caused the stock market to go down yesterday. A stock market is also another word for a stock exchange.
(Definition of stock market n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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