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Wall Street

  1. street in lower Manhattan, New York City: the main financial center of the U.S.
  2. U.S. financiers and their power, influence, policies, etc., or the U.S. securities market

Etymology: from a defensive wall built there by the Dutch in 1653

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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