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US
/ˈfɛd/
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[ UK /fˈɛd/ ]
[ UK /fˈɛd/ ]
NOUN
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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 - any federal law-enforcement officer
How To Use Fed In A Sentence
- The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
- Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.
- I was a little miffed that we'd had such a poor fishing day. Times, Sunday Times
- The children were starting to get a bit fed up.
- The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton. Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
- I think he was a bit miffed. Times, Sunday Times
- Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.
- And there are a lot of so-called federalists, people who are just generally opposed to the extension of federal power and who object, who say look, this is the same thing that we objected to when liberals did it. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2005
- And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon! Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
- Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to testify in front of the House Budget Committee.