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SECURITIES INDUSTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does securities industry mean? 

SECURITIES INDUSTRY (noun)
  The noun SECURITIES INDUSTRY has 1 sense:

1. the securities markets in the aggregateplay

  Familiarity information: SECURITIES INDUSTRY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SECURITIES INDUSTRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The securities markets in the aggregate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

market; securities industry

Context example:

the market always frustrates the small investor

Hypernyms ("securities industry" is a kind of...):

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

Meronyms (members of "securities industry"):

securities market; stock exchange; stock market (an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers)

nondepository financial institution (a financial institution that funds their investment activities from the sale of securities or insurance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "securities industry"):

bear market (a market characterized by falling prices for securities)

bull market (a market characterized by rising prices for securities)

the City (used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain)

the Street; Wall Street (used to allude to the securities industry of the United States)

money market (a market for short-term debt instruments)


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