wirehouse

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A major brokerage company, generally nationwide, with multiple branches. Canada,US
    — Ten years ago, the Wall Street wirehouse brokerage firm seemed unassailable – part of the very firmament underpinning the entire investment industry from coast to coast.
  2. A brokerage company with a telegraph line, telephone line, or electronic communication network. Canada,US,obsolete
    — The so-called ‘wire house’ …is a product of the boom times.

词形变化

wirehouses plural wire-house alternative wire house alternative

词汇关系

上位词
brokerage stockbroker
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词源

1904, wire + house (“company”), from earlier private-wire house (1894). Originally referred to brokerage companies that owned or leased telegraph lines, so that market information could be transmitted more quickly. Later generalized to “major brokerage”. Wirehouses are now defined by that they have a direct access to "Fed-Fund Wires", which is the system in which all banks and only the big brokerage houses can "wire" money directly from one account to another. Smaller brokerage firms do not have their own wire line, but need to send transactions by transmitting them through a bank's wire system.
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