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• Dow Jones average
  Dow Jones average

  noun

  any of the indexes published by financial publishing firm Dow Jones and Company, especially any of those showing the average closing prices of the representative common stocks of 30 industrials, 20 transportation companies, or 15 utilities, or a composite of these.
• Dow-Jones average
  Dow-Jones average

  noun

  a daily index of stock-exchange prices based on the average price of a selected number of securities

Dow Jones average

American  

[dou johnz av-er-ij, av-rij] / ˈdaʊ ˈdʒoʊnz ˈæv ər ɪdʒ, ˈæv rɪdʒ /

noun

1. any of the indexes published by financial publishing firm Dow Jones and Company, especially any of those showing the average closing prices of the representative common stocks of 30 industrials, 20 transportation companies, or 15 utilities, or a composite of these.

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Dow-Jones average British  

/ ˈdaʊˈdʒəʊnz /

noun

1. a daily index of stock-exchange prices based on the average price of a selected number of securities

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Etymology

Origin of Dow-Jones average

C20: named after Charles H. Dow (died 1902) and Edward D. Jones (died 1920), American financial statisticians

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The Dow Jones average plunged more than 1,000 points during Monday’s trading session before recovering and finishing with a modest gain.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

And until we get there, you might want to save yourself the time and aggravation of trying to figure out why the Dow Jones average just fell 600 points while you were having lunch.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2018

The Dow Jones average has left past versions of the same in the dust.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2018

The Dow Jones average fell 588 points Monday and shed over 200 more on Tuesday, after being up for most of the day.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2015

This is profitability even by modern Wall Street standards: if the Dow Jones average had risen a similar amount since World War II, the index would now stand at over twenty thousand.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

The stock market climbed to three new records after the news, wound up the week with the Dow-Jones average standing at a robust 922.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Dow-Jones average closes at 569.02, a loss of 4.27 for the week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rail shares on the Dow-Jones average have risen more than 50% since last October.

From Time Magazine Archive

The overall market is in worse shape than indicated by the Dow-Jones average of blue chips or Standard & Poor's index of 500 Big Board issues.

From Time Magazine Archive

But by the end of the week, volume subsided to a modest 3,380,000 shares, and the Dow-Jones average settled back to 590.19, a gain of about 14 points for the week as a whole.

From Time Magazine Archive