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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Federal Reserve Bank mean? 

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK (noun)
  The noun FEDERAL RESERVE BANK has 1 sense:

1. one of 12 regional banks that monitor and act as depositories for banks in their regionplay

  Familiarity information: FEDERAL RESERVE BANK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FEDERAL RESERVE BANK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One of 12 regional banks that monitor and act as depositories for banks in their region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Federal Reserve Bank; reserve bank

Hypernyms ("Federal Reserve Bank" is a kind of...):

bank; banking company; banking concern; depository financial institution (a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities)

Holonyms ("Federal Reserve Bank" is a member of...):

Fed; Federal Reserve; Federal Reserve System; FRS (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)


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