bourse

noun4

1. •
   A stock exchange.

   • In brief, Le Chiffre plans, we believe, to follow the example of most other desperate till-robbers and make good the deficit in his accounts by gambling. The 'Bourse' is too slow. — 1953
2. •
   A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
3. •
   (figurative) Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
4. •
   The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.