Federal Reserve System

Definition: Federal Reserve System

Federal Reserve System

Noun

1. The central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and stated charted 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".

Specialty Definitions: Federal Reserve System

Domain	Definitions
Economics	(USA) The equivalent of the central bank of the USA and the coordinator of monetary policy. (references)
Finance	The central banking system of the US. It has twelve Federal Reserve Banks divided up by geographical regions. The Board of Governors supervises the operations of the regional banks and coordinates monetary policy through its Federal Open Market Committee. Source: European Union. (references)
	Made up of the Federal Reserve Board, the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, federally chartered commercial banks, and state-chartered commercial banks that elect to be members. The Federal Reserve System serves as a central credit facility for member commercial banks, and controls the nation's money supply. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Federal Reserve System

Synonyms: Central bank, Fed (n), Federal Reserve (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Federal Reserve System

English words defined with "Federal Reserve System": discount rate ♦ Federal Reserve Board ♦ member bank. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Federal Reserve System": CHIEF BANK EXAMINER ♦ discount window ♦ European Monetary Union ♦ Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, federal funds, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve Banks ♦ Office of Financial Institution Adjudication, outright transactions. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Federal Reserve System

Domain	Title
Books	Central Banking Systems Compared: The Ecb, the Pre-Euro Bundesbank, and the Federal Reserve System (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking, 20) (reference) Competition and Monopoly in the Federal Reserve System, 1914-1951 : A Microeconomic Approach to Monetary History (reference) Formative Period of the Federal Reserve System During the World Crisis (reference) Us Federal Reserve System Handbook (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Annual Report : Board Of Governors Of The Federal Reserve System (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Speeches: Federal Reserve System

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Given the cooperation of the Federal Reserve System, which I so earnestly seek, I am confident that this movement can continue.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Only a reduction in spending can make it possible for the Federal Reserve System to avoid an inflationary growth in the money supply and thus restore balance to our economy.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Federal Reserve System

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
federal reserve system	182
board of governor federal reserve system	15
bank federal reserve system	6
banking federal reserve system	3
federal reserve system us	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Federal Reserve System

Language		Translations for "Federal Reserve System"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Federal Reserve System. (various references)

Dutch		Federal Reserve System. (various references)

French		Federal Reserve System, système de réserve fédérale. (various references)

German		Federal Reserve System. (various references)

Greek		Oμοσπονδιακό Aποθεματικό Σύστημα. (various references)

Hungarian		usa központi bankja. (various references)

Italian		Fed, Sistema della riserva federale, Riserva federale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		連邦準備制度 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		れ�"ぽうじゅ�"びせいど. (various references)

Pig Latin		ederalfay eserveray ystemsay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.