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Big Board

Big Board \Big Board\ (b[i^]g" b[^o]rd`), prop. n. (Finance) The New York Stock Exchange; -- a nickname often used in financial reporting.

WordNet
big board
  1. n. a stock exchange in New York [syn: New York Stock Exchange, N. Y. Stock Exchange, NYSE]

  2. the large display board at the New York Stock Exchange that reports on stocks traded on the exchange

Usage examples of "big board".

He pressed the button that controlled her, and then, avoiding the strip-tease chairs, rolled himself comfortably under the big board.

He stared at Flattery's profile, seeing the way the man's sensitive fingers moved like spider legs across the big board.

Edith sat at the big board, watching the array of display screens half-surrounding her, showing views of the approaching Peacekeepers and the spacecraft at L-l.

Gornt was sitting beside his stockbroker, Joseph Stern, in the exchange watching the big board delightedly.

As a result, Connors' eyes were only fractionally slower than Dimitri's in finding the fresh datum on the big board, and her frown mirrored his own.

He replaced the shears in their ioop on the extraordinarily big board that the little black bag turned into when it unfolded, and leaned over the wound.