STOCKBROKER BELT


Meaning of STOCKBROKER BELT in English

n [ usu sing ] ( BrE )

an area outside a city, where rich people live in large expensive houses. Many of them work in the city as highly paid professional people, e.g. stockbrokers (= people who buy and sell shares in companies on behalf of other people). Most people think of the typical stockbroker belt as Surrey , south-west of London, but the phrase can be used to refer to any expensive area outside a city:

They bought a large detached house in the heart of the stockbroker belt.

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.