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Wall street

//ˈwɔːl stɹiːt// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests. metonymically

    "The causes of income stagnation are varied and lack the political simplicity of calls to bring down the deficit or avert another Wall Street meltdown."

  2. 2
    The street that traditionally has been a principal locus for those entities and whose name is metonymically extended to refer to them.

    "Holonyms: Manhattan < New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World"

Noun
  1. 1
    used to allude to the securities industry of the United States wordnet

Etymology

From wall + street. The term is the name of a street in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.A., where the palisade of New Amsterdam was once located. The street is known for the many major U.S. financial institutions located there.

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