Meaning of Wall Street | Babel Free

Definitions

1. American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.
   metonymically
2. The street that traditionally has been a principal locus for those entities and whose name is metonymically extended to refer to them.

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Examples

“The causes of income stagnation are varied and lack the political simplicity of calls to bring⟳ down the deficit or avert another Wall Street meltdown.”

“Holonyms: Manhattan < New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World”

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