wire house

or wirehouse

noun

, Stock Exchange.

1. a brokerage firm with branch offices connected with their main office by a private system of telephone, telegraph, and teletype wires.

Example Sentences

He did not seem to mourn his liberty, but appeared generally very happy in his wire house.

From Project Gutenberg

And then, across the bowls of milk and a leg of mutton sitting in a little wire house, his eyes looked in a dumb agony at Annette.

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