wall street

1. 1.

   a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance

   SynonymsWall St.

   Broaderstreet

   Part ofManhattan
2. 2.

   used to allude to the securities industry of the United States

   Synonymsthe Street

   Broadermarket

Questions about wall street

What does wall street mean?

wall street means "a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wall street?

Close synonyms include Wall St., the 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 wall street a common word?

wall street 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.