Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun federal_reserve_system

1 sense of federal reserve system

Sense 1
Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve, Fed, 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; "the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money supply")
       => central bank -- (a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government)