1A street at the south end of Manhattan in New York City, where the New York Stock Exchange and other leading US financial institutions are located.

1. 1.1 Used allusively to refer to the US money market or financial interests.
   华尔街（喻指美国货币市场或金融界）
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   • In the case of short sales by an individual or hedge fund, a Wall Street firm generally places these funds into a ‘restricted’ account.
   • Before achieving recognition as an artist, he had a prosperous career as a Wall Street commodities broker.
   • He will run CIT much like a Wall Street firm, further tying compensation to financial results, keeping a close eye on risk, and boosting fee income.
   • She is accused of lying to and otherwise misleading officers of the law in a Wall Street insider trading case.
   • Some decidedly New York themes have emerged, including one dog modelled after the subway map and another dressed like a Wall Street banker.
   • The NYSE isn't a company, and it isn't a Wall Street firm.
   • In a Wall Street context, visibility is simply what we know about future business activity.
   • Stimson had brought the 46-year-old lawyer to the War Department from a Wall Street law firm in 1941.
   • My father's a Wall Street bigwig, meaning that he pulls in tons of revenue from cheating off business associates, competitors, and clients.
   • Before earning his celebrity status Koons supported his art by working as a Wall Street commodities broker.
   • If he gets the job, O'Neal would be the first African American CEO of a Wall Street brokerage giant.
   • Even Jesse Jackson rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and created a Wall Street Project.
   • Founder, Eric Gleacher, a Wall Street veteran and former US marine, features in the book Barbarians at the Gate.
   • He walked away from the venture after Mabon Nugent, a Wall Street investment firm, agreed to give him $20 million for it.
   • Within a few months, he signed up an ex-energy executive, a start-up veteran, and a Wall Street financier.
   • And given how much cheaper it is for a Wall Street bank to buy research than to do it in-house, some firms may end up outsourcing a chunk of coverage, he says.
   • But thanks to the net, the misleading news spread at hyperspeed and even prompted a Wall Street selloff when it appeared Bush was in trouble.
   • All of corporate America was complicit in this fraud, from the accounting firm that accepted their figures to a Wall Street that was happy to share in their profits.
   • Britain would be in the front line but predictions of a Wall Street collapse have simmered for ages and still the good times roll.
   • The Social Security trust fund should be in a lock box, not a Wall Street slot machine.