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In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.
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Meaning of "Wall Street" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WALL STREET

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WALL STREET

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Wall Street is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WALL STREET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Wall Street

Wall Street

Wall Street is a 0.7 miles, eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector, or signifying New York-based financial interests. Wall Street is the home of the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies. Several other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area, including NASDAQ, the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock Exchange. Anchored by Wall Street, New York City has been called the world's principal financial center.

Definition of Wall Street in the English dictionary

The definition of Wall Street in the dictionary is a street in lower Manhattan, New York, where the Stock Exchange and major banks are situated, regarded as the embodiment of American finance.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WALL STREET

Wallace
Wallace´s line
Wallachia
Wallachian
wallah
wallaroo
Wallasey

WORDS THAT END LIKE WALL STREET

back street
backstreet
Bay Street
Bradstreet
cross street
Downing Street
Easy Street
Fleet Street
greet
High Street
high-street
Main Street
man in the street
off-street
side street
street
the Arab street
the High Street
Threadneedle Street
through street
to be a one-way street

Synonyms and antonyms of Wall Street in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Wall Street» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WALL STREET

Find out the translation of Wall Street to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Wall Street from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Wall Street» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

华尔街
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Wall Street
570 millions of speakers

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Wall Street
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वॉल स्ट्रीट
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

وول ستريت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Уолл-стрит
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

wall Street
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ওয়াল স্ট্রিট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Wall Street
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Translator English - Malay

dinding Jalan
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Translator English - German

wall Street
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ウォール街
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

월스트리트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wall Street
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Wall Street
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வோல் ஸ்ட்ரீட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वॉल स्ट्रीट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Wall Street
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Wall Street
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wall Street
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Уолл - стріт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Wall Street
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Wall Street
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Wall Street
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Wall Street
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Wall Street
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Wall Street

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WALL STREET»

The term «Wall Street» is very widely used and occupies the 8.675 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WALL STREET» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Wall Street

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10 QUOTES WITH «WALL STREET»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Wall Street.
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Simon Baker
I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.
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Alex Berenson
In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.
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Jayson Blair
I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.
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Donna Brazile
People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.
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Tina Brown
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
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Smedley Butler
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
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Susan Bysiewicz
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.
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Maria Cantwell
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.
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Neil Cavuto
I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.
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Ron Chernow
If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WALL STREET»

Discover the use of Wall Street in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Wall Street and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Wolf of Wall Street: (Original)
From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young children, a full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden cameras everywhere—even as the SEC and FBI ...
Jordan Belfort, 2014
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The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
From the Hardcover edition.
Turney Duff, 2013
3
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Including a Life-cycle Guide ...
Tracking the latest risks and rewards on Wall Street, the perennial bestseller offers reliable investment advice for the new century.
Burton Gordon Malkiel, 1999
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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed.
Karen Ho, 2009
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Wall Street: A History : from Its Beginnings to the Fall of ...
An economic historian presents the first, wide-ranging chronicle of the rise of Wall Street, tracing how the Street fueled the development of the U.S. into a world economic power and how it was increasingly subjected to government ...
Charles R. Geisst, 2004
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One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To ...
More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to ...
Peter Lynch, 2012
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Backstage Wall Street: An Insider’s Guide to Knowing Who to ...
Until you read this book.” —JAMES ALTUCHER, Formula Capital and author of I Was Blind but Now I See “Joshua wants Wall Street to be awesome. You can feel it every day on his amazing blog and in this great book.
Joshua M. Brown, 2012
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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance
Covers banking services, credit, home finance, financial planning, investments, and taxes.
Kenneth M. Morris, Virginia B. Morris, 2004
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The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins
This book takes us inside their dogged crusade against institutional inertia and industry influence as they encounter an outright reluctance by the Obama administration, the Justice Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission to ...
Jeff Connaughton, 2013
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The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting ...
Both persuasive and accessible, The Physics of Wall Street is riveting history that will change how we think about our economic future.
James Owen Weatherall, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WALL STREET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Wall Street is used in the context of the following news items.
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Investigators Believe Money Flowed to Malaysian Leader Najib's …
Documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal include bank transfer forms and flow charts put together by government investigators that reflect their ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Justice Department Probes Airlines for Collusion
... with analysts or officials at other airlines, according to a copy of a letter it sent to one of the airlines, and which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
Wall Street falls as Greece crisis unresolved; energy shares dip
U.S. stocks fell on Friday as Greek debt talks hit a stalemate and as concern over how soon the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates kept investors ... «Reuters, Jun 15»
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Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two
The impending move, first reported Sunday by The Wall Street Journal, set off a round of speculation in the industry about whether the separation could lead to ... «Wall Street Journal, Oct 14»
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Climate protesters to 'flood' Wall Street on Monday
Hundreds of environmental activists plan to "flood" Wall Street on Monday to protest the role Big Business plays in climate change. The #FloodWallStreet ... «CNNMoney, Sep 14»
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Tim Cook Says Apple to Add Security Alerts for iCloud Users
... an independent security researcher who has worked with The Wall Street Journal in the past. "More often than not, Apple chooses to err on the side of usability ... «Wall Street Journal, Sep 14»
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The Wolf of Wall Street: A 180-Minute Party Montage From Martin …
Remember that scene in The Wolf of Wall Street when Leonardo DiCaprio (as the crooked stockbroker Jordan Belfort) and Jonah Hill (as his right-hand man and ... «Slate Magazine, Dec 13»
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Wall Street Journal Announces That It, Too, Was Hacked by the …
One day after The New York Times reported that Chinese hackers had infiltrated its computers and stolen passwords for its employees, The Wall Street Journal ... «New York Times, Jan 13»
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Occupy Wall Street: A Frenzy That Fizzled
Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered on Monday near Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. Marcus Yam for The New York TimesOccupy Wall Street protesters ... «New York Times, Sep 12»
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Occupy Wall Street's Debt to Melville
On May 1, students and activists are planning to revive the Occupy Wall Street movement with a general strike. One poster making the rounds on Facebook and ... «The Atlantic, Apr 12»

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