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  • noun finance A major brokerage company, generally nationwide, with multiple branches.
  • noun finance, obsolete A brokerage company with a telegraph line, telephone line, or electronic communication network.

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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”.

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