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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
Synonyms

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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

The Dow Jones average rose over 1,900 points Friday but was still in bear market territory, down over 20 percent from its all-time last month.

From Washington Times Mar. 14, 2020

The Dow Jones average fell another 880 points by closing time on Tuesday afternoon, and has lost about 7% of its value in two days.

From Salon Feb. 25, 2020

Markets were little changed Friday, with the Dow Jones average up 0.2 percent at 11:30 a.m. and the Standard & Poor’s index almost precisely flat.

From Washington Post Dec. 7, 2012

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 blue-chip stocks included in the Dow-Jones average do not really reflect what has happened to these stocks.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Actually, the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial stocks does not completely show the extent of the current rise.

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

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