Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stock ticker

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: stock- tick-er
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available.

noun

Any device or display showing price and volumes of stock trades as the data become available.

Example Sentences

"... 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..."

Inflected Forms

stock tickers (plural) stock-ticker (alternative) stockticker (alternative)

Derived Forms

tickeritis

Phrases

stock ticker symbol news ticker ticker tape

Frequently Paired Words

news ticker ticker tape

Synonyms

ticker

Questions

What does stock ticker mean?: A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available.

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