standard and poor's

1. 1.

   a broadly based stock market index

   SynonymsStandard and Poor's Index

   Broaderstock index

Questions about standard and poor's

What does standard and poor's mean?

standard and poor's means "a broadly based stock market index".

What is another word for standard and poor's?

Close synonyms include Standard and Poor's Index. 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 standard and poor's a common word?

standard and poor's is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.