private-wire house

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A brokerage company with a telegraph line, telephone line, or electronic communication network. Canada,US,obsolete
    — All the private-wire houses were active on the selling side, those most talked of in connection with the Wall Street bull interest being the most active.

词形变化

private-wire houses plural private wire house alternative

词源

1894, due to these brokerage companies owning or leasing telegraph lines (which occurred since 1873), so that market information could be transmitted more quickly.
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