dow jones

1. 1.

   an indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange

   “the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing”

   SynonymsDow-Jones Industrial Average

   Broaderstock index

Questions about dow jones

What does dow jones mean?

dow jones means "an indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange".

What is another word for dow jones?

Close synonyms include Dow-Jones Industrial Average. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dow jones a common word?

dow jones is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.