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Black Thursday

Syllabification: (Black Thurs·day)

Entry from US Dictionary

Definition of Black Thursday

noun

  • October 24, 1929. On this date, a then-record number of shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange by panicked investors, marking the onset of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression.

Black Thursday in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Black Thursday in the US English dictionary
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