wire house

American  

Or wirehouse

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.

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Example Sentences

Last week a harbinger of the movement came with the proposal to form Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider with 48 branches, twelve correspondents, second biggest wire house in the land.*

From Time Magazine Archive

The newly merged firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider, second largest wire house, continued its expansion by acquiring the business and offices of Moyse & Barry, Stock Exchange members who became inactive Jan. 1.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon no dispute arose when the phrase "largest wire house" was used in connection with E. A. Pierce & Co.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crabs are particular critters, and they won’t step into your little wire house if your bait is rank or your wire rusty and clogged with sea growth.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Settin' on a sawed stick in a little wire house takes all the ginger out of any bird, an' their feathers are always mussy.

From The Song of the Cardinal by Stratton-Porter, Gene