The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
hypostatize, hypostatise
(verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hypostatise (third-person singular simple present hypostatises, present participle hypostatising, simple past and past participle hypostatised)
Alternative form of hypostatize
Source: Wiktionary
16 January 2025
(noun) a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; “they run things by the book around here”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.