Lexic.us

Definition of Reserve bank

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reserve Bank

Literary usage of Reserve bank

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)
"Choosing reserve bank directors. J. Pol. Econ. 22: 6S4-91. Jl. '14. ... Explaining it to reserve-bank losers. Lit. Digest. 48: 970-1. Ap. 25, '14. ..."

2. Journal by Texas Legislature. Senate, Legislature, United States Congress. Senate, Texas State Library, Texas (1914)
"with a capital stock of less than twenty- five thousand ($25000) dollars, and which does not become a member of a Federal reserve bank under the laws of the ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The Federal Reserve Act sought to substitute the idea of district clearance on the books of each reserve bank and that of national clearance by creating a ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"A suit against a federal reserve bank, which is incorporated under an act of ... Removal of causes <s=>27—reserve bank Is not deemed a citizen of the state ..."

5. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"Subject to review by the Federal Reserve Board, each reserve bank was empowered to establish each week or oftener a minimum rate of discount for each class ..."

6. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"The Federal Reserve Board was empowered to compel a Federal reserve bank to open such accounts or establish such agencies or correspondents, and whenever ..."

7. Money and Banking: Illustrated by American History by Horace White (1911)
"The balance of said reserves shall be held in its own vaults or in the Federal reserve bank, at its option. Any Federal reserve bank may receive from the ..."

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