An exchange, bourse, trading exchange or trading venue is an organized market where tradable securities, commodities, foreign exchange, futures, and options contracts are bought and sold.

What is meant by the word Bourse?

1 : exchange sense 5a specifically : a European stock exchange. 2 : a sale of numismatic or philatelic items on tables (as at a convention)

Where does the word Bourse come from?

bourse (n.)

1590s, earlier burse (1550s) "meeting place of merchants," from French bourse "meeting place of merchants," literally "purse," from Old French borse "money bag, purse" (12c.), from Medieval Latin bursa "a bag" (see purse (n.)).