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Definition of Big board

1. Noun. A stock exchange in New York.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Big Board

big O notation big Os big axillary nodes and normal breasts big babies big baby big band big bands big bang big bang theory big beat

big bedbug big blind big bluestem big bluestems big board (current term) big box big boxes big boy big boys big brain

big break big brother big brothers big brown bat big bucks big business big businessman big cat big cats

Literary usage of Big board

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recommendations for Reorganization of the Public School System of the City by Thomas J. Lynch, Chicago (Ill.) City council. Committee on schools, fire, police and civil service (1917)
"The big board cannot be efficient. In a large city like this' the action of the board must be informed, united, and energetic and the only way these ..."

2. Publication by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.) (1916)
"Experience has amply demonstrated that the big board with the numerous ... This is impossible where the big board is split up into a large number of little ..."

3. School Organization and Administration by Leonard Porter Ayres (1916)
"Experience has amply demonstrated that the big board with the numerous committees represents an ... This is impossible where the big board is split up ..."

4. Popular Hand Book for Cement and Concrete Users; a Comprehensive and Popular by Myron Henry Lewis, Albert Hotchkiss Chandler (1911)
"In this case another small concrete board should be placed next to the big "board," so that in the last turning the batch can be shovelled over on to the ..."

5. Cook Book: Helpful Recipes for War Time by Mrs Robert S Bradley, Robert S. Bradley, Waldo Lincoln (1917)
"... THL RAT'5 big board BILL A Round Hundred Million Dollars Worth of Grain Is Annually Destroyed by Rats "Uncle Sam has never attempted a reliable rat ..."

6. Radford's Cyclopedia of Construction; Carpentry, Building and Architecture edited by William A. Radford, Alfred Sidney Johnson (1909)
"... concrete board should be placed next to the big board, so that in the last turning the batch can be shoveled over onto the small board for placing, ..."

7. Popular Hand Book for Cement and Concrete Users: A Comprehensive and Popular by Myron Henry Lewis, Albert Hotchkiss Chandler (1911)
"In this case another small concrete board should be placed next to the big "board," so that in the last turning the batch can be shovelled over ..."

8. Life and Remains of the Rev. R. H. Quick by Robert Hebert Quick (1899)
"To go back to the classes maternelles, a big board, fixed at one end of the ... In this class the slates thus let in were lined just like the big board. ..."

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