Wall Street

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.

Wall Street

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

Wall Street

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.”

Word History and Origins

Origin of Wall Street¹

1820–30, Wall Street for def. 2

Example Sentences

In recent years, Fed officials and other Wall Street forecasters have supplemented government reports with privately produced data.

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Crude stocks were expected to have fallen by 1.1 million barrels, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of analysts.

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Of course, none of this has been lost on Wall Street, with the shares rising by a more than a third just this year.

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Bank earnings show Wall Street is chugging along and the latest whispers out of the Fed suggest interest rates will keep going down.

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Wall Street forecasts net income, however, to decline for the second straight year in 2025.

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