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Dow Jones

Definition: Dow Jones

Dow Jones

Noun

1. An indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 leading companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Dow Jones

DomainDefinition

Finance

A basket of thirty blue chip companies providing an indication of the general movement of prices in that market. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Dow Jones

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
DOWEnglishDow Jones retrieval serviceComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Dow Jones

Synonym: Dow-Jones Industrial Average (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dow Jones

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Mart

Ticker, stock ticker, quotation; stock index, market index, the Dow Jones Index, the Dow Industrials, the transportation index, utilities, the utilities index; the New York Stock Exchange index, the Nikkei index; the Financial Times index, the FTI, the over-the-counter index, NASDAQ index.

News

United Press International, UPI; Associated Press, AP; The Dow Jones News Service, DJ; The New York Times News Service, NYT; Reuters; TASS; The Nikkei.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Dow Jones

English words defined with "Dow Jones": dropfall, free fall. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Dow Jones": Trading haltsWide Area Information Servers. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dow Jones

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Dow Jones ain't got time for the bums (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Dow Jones

DomainTitle

References

  • Dow Jones & Company, Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • DOW JONES & COMPANY, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Dow Jones Guide to the Global Stock Market (1999 Edition) (reference)

  • Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Dow Jones & Co. - DJ [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Markets Measure: An Illustrated History of America Told Through the Dow Jones Industrial Average (reference)

  • The Dow Jones Investor's Handbook, 1984 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Dow Jones

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dow Jones

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Latvia

The RSE was the first exchange in Eastern Europe to create an index in cooperation with Dow Jones. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Dow Jones

CountryName
USA

Dow Jones & Company, Inc

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Dow Jones

Expressions using "Dow Jones": Dow Jones average Dow Jones index Dow Jones Industrial Average Index. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dow Jones

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dow jones

3,016

dow jones news service

15

dow jones industrial average

526

dow jones.com

12

dow jones index

190

dow jones graph

10

dow jones average

154

dow jones industrial index

10

dow jones industrial

82

historical dow jones

9

dow jones history

58

dow jones component

9

dow jones industrials

55

dow jones average history

9

dow jones news

51

dow jones live

8

dow jones interactive

51

dow jones industrial average chart

8

dow jones stock

46

dow jones news wire

8

dow jones newswire

42

dow jones sustainability index

7

dow jones company

40

dow jones utility

7

dow jones future

30

dow jones ind

7

dow jones newswires

29

dow jones stock exchange

7

business dow jones news

27

dow jones stock quote

7

dow jones chart

22

dow jones ticker

7

dow jones stock market

18

dow jones historical chart

6

dow jones industrial average history

17

dow jones today

6

dow jones 30

17

dow jones closing

6

dow jones report

16

dow jones historical data

6

dow jones index history

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dow Jones

Language Translations for "Dow Jones"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Dow Jones aktieindeks (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), Den Danske Bank (Financial Times(FT), Footsie, Nikkei). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Dow Jones Index (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), CBS-index (Financial Times(FT), Footsie, Nikkei). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Dow Jonesin osakeindeksi (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index). (various references)

   

French

  

Swissindex, RM,règlement mensuel, indice Dow Jones (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), CAC,Cotation assistée en continu. (various references)

   

German

  

Dow Jones Index (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), Deutscher Aktienindex (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), DAX (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index, Financial Times(FT), Footsie, Nikkei), Commerzbank (Financial Times(FT), Footsie, Nikkei). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δείκτης Nτόου Tζόουνς (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), δείκτης Dow Jones (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index). (various references)

   

Italian

  

indici Dow Jones (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), indice Milano Borsa (Financial Times(FT), Footsie, Nikkei), Indice MIB (Financial Times(FT), Footsie, Nikkei). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owday onesjay

   

Portuguese

  

índices Dow Jones (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), Índice de acções da Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa (Financial Times(FT), Footsie, Nikkei). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

доу-джонс. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Índice general de Madrid (Financial Times(FT), Footsie, Nikkei), Índice general de Barcelona (Financial Times(FT), Footsie, Nikkei), índice Dow Jones (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

DowJonesindustriindex (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), Dow Jones index (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), Dow Jones (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index), DJIA (Dow Jones average, Dow Jones index, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dow Jones

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-j-n-o-o-s-w"

-1 letter: swooned.

-2 letters: endows, nodose, noosed, odeons, snowed, wooden.

-3 letters: dojos, downs, dowse, endow, enows, jones, jowed, nodes, noose, nosed, odeon, owned, owsen, snood, sonde, sowed, swoon, wends, woods, wooed.

-4 letters: dens, dews, does, dojo, done, dons, dose, down, dows, ends, enow, eons, jeon, jews, joes, jows, news, node, nods, noes, nose, nows, odes, ones.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dow Jones


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 77      4A 6F 6E 65 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01110111 00100000 01001010 01101111 01101110 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#119 &#32 &#74 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0077      004A 006F 006E 0065 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38818924481807185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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