Wall Street

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Wall Street

/ˈwɔːl stɹiːt/ UK
/ˈwɔl ˌstɹit/ US
/ˈwɑl-/ US

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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.

proper noun

metonymically American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests. 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.
Similar: the Street · Opposite: Main Street
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

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@misc{wall_street_2026,
  title = {Wall Street},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wall%20street},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}