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Wall Streeter

noun

  1. a person who is employed on Wall Street or in the financial district.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Wall Streeter1

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85; Wall Street + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Here’s a small but notable fact about the former Wall Streeter turned full-time writer: He is one of the few best-selling authors whose website sends potential readers to buy books from Indiebound before Amazon.

They were led there partly by the work of a little-known Wall Streeter named Nathan Anderson.

Walking the streets that evening with James Paul Warburg, a Wall Streeter and Roosevelt economic advisor, FDR’s conservative budget director Lewis Douglas muttered, “This is the end of Western civilization.”

“After 9/11, I remember we actually wanted to hear the sound of ambulances on our quiet streets because that meant there were survivors, but we didn’t hear those sounds and it was heartbreaking. Today, I hear an ambulance on my strangely quiet street and my heart breaks, too,” said 61-year-old Meg Gifford, a former Wall Streeter who lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

“After 9/11, I remember we actually wanted to hear the sound of ambulances on our quiet streets because that meant there were survivors, but we didn’t hear those sounds, and it was heartbreaking. Today, I hear an ambulance on my strangely quiet street and my heart breaks, too,” said Meg Gifford, 61, a former Wall Streeter who lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

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