the street

1. 1.

   used to allude to the securities industry of the United States

   SynonymsWall Street

   Broadermarket

Questions about the street

What does the street mean?

the street means "used to allude to the securities industry of the United States".

What is another word for the street?

Close synonyms include Wall Street. 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 the street a common word?

the street 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.