Wall Street

American  

noun

1. a street in New York City, in S Manhattan: the major financial center of the U.S.

2. the money market or the financiers of the U.S.

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Wall Street British  

noun

1. a street in lower Manhattan, New York, where the Stock Exchange and major banks are situated, regarded as the embodiment of American finance

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Wall Street Cultural  

1. A street in New York City on which the New York Stock Exchange and many investment firms are located. The street's name is often used in reference to the activities conducted on it: “Stock prices fell on Wall Street.”

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Etymology

Origin of Wall Street

1820–30, Wall Street for def. 2

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Wall Street

Microsoft’s cloud-computing division, Azure, saw revenue growth expand 43% year over year, and management’s guidance of 45% growth for the current quarter surpassed Wall Street expectations.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

The Wall Street Journal reported recently on a fund that touted exposure to SpaceX but later told investors the shares were sold before its IPO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

That realization hit again last week, when the Wall Street Journal reported that A.I. rival Anthropic will project a total addressable market of $30 trillion.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

Prediction markets, increased trading activity and growing assets led one Wall Street bank to boost its rating on Robinhood Markets even as cryptocurrency volumes decline.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

He had walked into AIG FP and had shown them how Deutsche Bank, along with every other Wall Street firm, was playing them for fools, and they’d understood.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis