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n. A building where farmers and traders traded cereal grains.
WordNet
n. an exchange where grains are bought and sold
Wikipedia
A corn exchange (Commonwealth English) or grain exchange (North American English) was a building where farmers and merchants traded cereal grains. Such trade was common in towns and cities across Great Britain and Ireland until the 19th century, but as the trade became centralised in the 20th century many such buildings were used for other purposes. Several have since become heritage sites.
The name corn refers to all cereal grains in most varieties of English, not only to maize as in North America.
For the history of corn exchanges, see:
- grain trade
- Commodity market and
- Commodities exchange
Usage examples of "corn exchange".
They conducted their love affair in the room above the abandoned corn exchange as the autumn weather came lop-leggedly in from the east: now a warm day, now a sunny one, now four days of cold winds and thin rain.
The worst elements are holed up in the Corn Exchange, two miles south of here, holding continuous committee meetings, and issuing proclamations and revolutionary communique on the hour, every hour.
It reached the eastern end of the Market Place and continued in a direct line into Corn Exchange.
The head teller of the Corn Exchange Bank in the Bronx was sorting bills and came across two $10 gold certificates.
Dominating the High Street was a fine Queen Anne building, once the Corn Exchange, now the headquarters of Corinium Television.
He beat it over to Fourth Avenue and went to the Corn Exchange Bank at Twenty-ninth Street.