Wall Street
English
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.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɔːl stɹiːt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɔl ˌstɹit/, /ˈwɑl-/
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Proper noun
- (originally US, metonymically) American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.
- Synonym: the Street
- Antonym: Main Street
- 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, “Standard of living is in the shadows as election issue”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-11:
- 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.
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References
- “Wall Street, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022. - “Wall Street, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
Further reading
Wall Street on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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