Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The US financial industry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 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 .
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- proper noun idiomatic : American financial markets, financial institutions as a whole, or by extension, big-business interests.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance
- noun used to allude to the securities industry of the United States
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Nowhere is this better seen than on Wall Street, which is chock full of multimillionaires and billionaires who got to the top by taking advantage of items like "too big to fail insurance" for their banks, gambling with government insured deposits, ripping off state and local governments on pension management fees and, of course, the trillion dollars in bailouts bucks given at interest rates that were way below market levels.
Dean Baker: When Being Rich Makes Us Poor, People Should Occupy Wall Street Dean Baker 2011
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The gloominess extends to Wall Street, which is suffering a sharp decline in fee-generating muni-bond deals.
Muni Salesmen Fight Gloom Michael Corkery 2011
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Nowhere is this better seen than on Wall Street, which is chock full of multimillionaires and billionaires who got to the top by taking advantage of items like "too big to fail insurance" for their banks, gambling with government insured deposits, ripping off state and local governments on pension management fees and, of course, the trillion dollars in bailouts bucks given at interest rates that were way below market levels.
Dean Baker: When Being Rich Makes Us Poor, People Should Occupy Wall Street Dean Baker 2011
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Nowhere is this better seen than on Wall Street, which is chock full of multimillionaires and billionaires who got to the top by taking advantage of items like "too big to fail insurance" for their banks, gambling with government insured deposits, ripping off state and local governments on pension management fees and, of course, the trillion dollars in bailouts bucks given at interest rates that were way below market levels.
Dean Baker: When Being Rich Makes Us Poor, People Should Occupy Wall Street Dean Baker 2011
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Nowhere is this better seen than on Wall Street, which is chock full of multimillionaires and billionaires who got to the top by taking advantage of items like "too big to fail insurance" for their banks, gambling with government insured deposits, ripping off state and local governments on pension management fees and, of course, the trillion dollars in bailouts bucks given at interest rates that were way below market levels.
Dean Baker: When Being Rich Makes Us Poor, People Should Occupy Wall Street Dean Baker 2011
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It looks like chaos on the Hill to Wall Street, which is saying: Give us new rules.
Stocks plunge at closing, hitting their lowest point since February 2010
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In 1987 Michael Douglas starred in a film called Wall Street where he famously intoned: "Greed is good."
Robert Creamer: AIG Bonus Scandal Spotlights the Bankruptcy of Wall Street's "Greed is Good" Values 2009
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They are creatures of Wall Street, which is to say that they believe in its ability to make whole the economic ills of our society.
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Indeed, such Yuletide Cheer is rare, except on Wall Street, which is licking its collective chops in anticipation of yet another round of big annual payouts.
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Indeed, such Yuletide Cheer is rare, except on Wall Street, which is licking its collective chops in anticipation of yet another round of big annual payouts.
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