wall street

3 definitions found

wall street - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wall Street \Wall Street\
     A street towards the southern end of the borough of
     Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East
     River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it
     when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief
     financial center of the United States, hence the name is
     often used for the money market and the financial interests
     of the country; -- in American financial publications, also
     referred to as the street.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

wall street - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Wall Street
      n 1: a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock
           Exchange is located; symbol of American finance [syn: Wall Street
           , Wall St.]
      2: used to allude to the securities industry of the United
         States [syn: Wall Street, the Street]

wall street - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "Wall Street":
     American Stock Exchange, Amex, Dow-Jones Industrial Average,
     Lombard Street, board, bourse, commodity exchange,
     competitive market, corn pit, curb, curb exchange, curb market,
     exchange, exchange floor, financial district, long market,
     market index, open market, outside market, over-the-counter market,
     pit, quotation board, spotty market, steady market, stiff market,
     stock exchange, stock market, stock price index, stock ticker,
     strong market, telephone market, the Big Board, the Exchange,
     the Street, the market, third market, ticker, ticker market,
     ticker tape, top-heavy market, unsteady market, weak market,
     wheat pit