Wall Street
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3.4
- proper noun
- /wɔl strit/
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Wall Street
- How could a man who has spent his life on Wall Street achieve such a wonderful transformation?
- The Wall Street Journal
My first gig out of college was on Wall Street, on the New York Stock Exchange and pre.
- My first gig out of college was on Wall Street, on the New York Stock Exchange and pre.
- What I want to hear more about the state of the economy, Wall Street, bailouts of the job market?
- Heinz took these gains and turned his attention to Wall Street.
- I mean, when I was first out of university on Wall Street, I work for a firm, Bear Stearns.
- And it was like, oh cool, I'm only going to work on Wall Street as long as I need to.
- You know, I was working on Wall Street and, and I, I had the best job I could imagine having.
Examples
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Number one, I used to work on Wall Street.
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A map of the Wall Street area.
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You know, I was working on Wall Street and, and I, I had the best job I could imagine having.
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I was working down by the river, over on Wall Street.
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Washington needs to change how the big Wall Street banks operate.
Academic text (2011) -
The normal, older man, in a crisp summer suit, was reading The Wall Street Journal.
Fiction book (1997) -
I could've worked on Wall Street.
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A 2007 count by The Wall Street Journal found sixty lawyers in the Senate.
Academic text (2010) -
The buildings of Wall Street are masses of concrete and wood, the streets surrounding them paved with cobblestones.
Fiction book (2002) -
My parents were the first African-Americans to own a firm on Wall Street.
Synonyms
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The banks and companies on Wall Street that buy and sell stocks and bonds in the United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
Wall + Street
The meaning 'the U.S. financial industry' is a toponymic/metonymic use that cannot be derived from the literal constituents 'wall' and 'street' (which only denote physical objects/places). Understanding this sense requires cultural or lexicalized knowledge of the place-name usage rather than compositional inference, so a B1 learner who only knows the component words would not reliably infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Wall Street gets its name from a wooden wall that Dutch settlers built along a street in the 1600s to protect their town, and the name stayed as the city grew and trade moved there.