DOW-JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dow-Jones Industrial Average mean? 

• DOW-JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE (noun)
  The noun DOW-JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE has 1 sense:

1. an indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange

  Familiarity information: DOW-JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOW-JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Dow-Jones Industrial Average; Dow Jones

Context example:

the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing

Instance hypernyms:

stock index; stock market index (index based on a statistical compilation of the share prices of a number of representative stocks)