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Definition of Federal reserve bank
1. Noun. One of 12 regional banks that monitor and act as depositories for banks in their region.
Group relationships: Fed, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve System, Frs
Generic synonyms: Bank, Banking Company, Banking Concern, Depository Financial Institution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Federal Reserve Bank
Literary usage of Federal reserve bank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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. ..."
2. 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 ..."
3. Index-digest of the Federal Reserve Act and Amendments by United States (1918)
"They shall be redeemed in gold on demand at the Treasury Department, etc., or in
gold or lawful money at any federal reserve bank. §16:l. 8: p. 31. ..."
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 Congress
... Series—federal reserve bank cannot accumulate checks for demand on ..."
5. Money and Banking: Illustrated by American History by Horace White (1911)
"The said Federal Reserve Board may at any time call upon a federal reserve bank
for additional security to protect the Federal reserve notes issued to it. ..."
6. The A B C of the Federal Reserve System by Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1920)
"(2) Bills of exchange endorsed by a member bank and bankers' acceptances bought
by the federal reserve bank in the open market. ..."
7. Money and Banking by John Thom Holdsworth (1917)
"The said Federal Reserve Board may at any time call upon a federal reserve bank
for additional security to protect the Federal reserve notes issued to it. ..."
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