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Definition of Federal reserve
1. Noun. The central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies. "The Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money supply"
Generic synonyms: Central Bank
Member holonyms: Federal Reserve Bank, Reserve Bank, National Bank, Member Bank
Definition of Federal reserve
1. Proper noun. (US) the central banking system of the United States ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Federal Reserve
Literary usage of Federal reserve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Commercial paper and the federal reserve banks. OMW Sprague. J. Pol. Econ. ...
federal reserve act of 1913. OMW Sprague. QJ Econ. 28: 213-54. F. '14. ..."
2. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1914)
"The federal reserve Board was directed to promulgate regulation.s to govern the
transfer of funds at par between federal reserve banks, and was empowered at ..."
3. Money and Banking: Illustrated by American History by Horace White (1911)
"federal reserve DISTRICTS SEC. 2. As soon as practicable, the Secretary of the
Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Comptroller of the ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Bankers M 98:413- 15 Ар 49 Canadian view of the federal reserve act bankers M
... Moody 19:366-8 Jl '16 federal reserve act—to whom it has made good. ..."
5. Journal by Texas Legislature. Senate, Legislature, United States Congress. Senate, Texas State Library, Texas (1914)
"serve may be held in its own vaults, or in the federal reserve bank, or in national
banks in reserve or central reserve cities as now denned by law. ..."
6. The Financial Organization of Society by Harold Glenn Moulton (1921)
"It has accordingly been vigorously urged that the federal reserve Board should
be cut loose from the Treasury Department in order that it may exercise its ..."
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