Ticker-tape meaning

A system that displays stock symbols, prices, and volume information in a scrolling manner and is displayed in brokerage offices or in other public places. It derives its name from the loud ticking noise that these machines made when they printed the price and volume information for the stocks in the days before computers.
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The paper strip on which a telegraphic ticker prints.
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Paper tape used in a ticker for recording telegraphed stock-market quotations, etc.
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Designating or of a parade, etc. onto which confetti and paper streamers (and, formerly, ticker tape) are thrown in celebration.
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(trading, finance) Paper tape on which a stock ticker, news ticker or similar device would print incoming information.
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(by extension) Any device used for displaying usually sideways scrolling news or updates.
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Ticker-tape Sentence Examples

  • They've even laid on a ticker-tape parade for me, although I have to share it with the Yankees baseball team.

  • He is the only individual to have been recognized with two ticker tape parades down Broadway's Canyon of Heroes.

  • He is the only individual to have been recognized with two ticker tape parades down Broadway 's Canyon of Heroes.

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