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bourse

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–noun

a stock exchange, esp. the stock exchange of certain European cities.

Origin:
1835–45; < F: lit., purse; see bursa

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bourse (bŏŏrs)

n. A stock exchange, especially one in a continental European city.

[French, purse, bourse, from Late Latin bursa, bag; see bursa.]

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Bourse

Bourse\, n. [F. bourse purse, exchange, LL. bursa, fr. Gr.? skin, hide, of which a purse was usually made. Cf. Purse, Burse.] An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

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Language Translation for : Bourse

Spanish: bolsa,

German: die Börse,

Japanese: 取引所

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bourse

"stock exchange," 1575, burse, from O.Fr. borse, from M.L. bursa "a bag" (see purse). Fr. spelling and modern sense of "exchange for merchants" is first recorded 1845, from the name of the Paris stock exchange. The term originated because in 13c. Bruges the sign of a purse (or perhaps three purses), hung on the front of the house where merchants met.

Bourse

Any European stock exchange.

Investopedia Commentary

This French term can be used to refer to any European exchange however, it is most often used in reference to the Paris Stock Exchange.

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