Wall Street

Proper noun

Wall Street

1. (metonymically) American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.
   • 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.2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, “Standard of living is in the shadows as election issue”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...

   Synonyms:

   the Street

   Antonyms:

   Main Street

2. The street that traditionally has been a principal locus for those entities and whose name is metonymically extended to refer to them.
   • Holonyms: Manhattan < New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World