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  • 11Edge Act Corporation — An Edge Act Corporation is a corporation chartered by the Federal Reserve of the United States under the Edge Act to engage in international banking operations. The Federal Reserve Board acts upon applications by U.S. and foreign banking… …

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  • 12board — [OE] Old English bord had a wide range of meanings, whose two main strands (‘plank’ and ‘border, side of a ship’) reveal that it came from two distinct sources: Germanic *bortham and *borthaz respectively (despite their similarity, they have not… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 13board — [OE] Old English bord had a wide range of meanings, whose two main strands (‘plank’ and ‘border, side of a ship’) reveal that it came from two distinct sources: Germanic *bortham and *borthaz respectively (despite their similarity, they have not… …

    Word origins

  • 14board — boardable, adj. boardlike, adj. /bawrd, bohrd/, n. 1. a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness. 2. a flat slab of wood or other material for some specific purpose: a cutting board. 3. a sheet… …

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  • 15board — /bɔd / (say bawd) noun 1. a piece of timber sawn thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness. 2. (plural) Theatre the stage. 3. a. Also, shearing board. in a shearing shed, the clear part of the floor on which the… …

  • 16Board track racing — Construction of a board track in Uniontown, Pennsylvania in 1916 …

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  • 17Edge corporations — Specialized banking institutions, authorized and chartered by the Federal Reserve Board in the U.S., which are allowed to engage in transactions that have a foreign or international character. They are not subject to any restrictions on… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 18edge — Synonyms and related words: A, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acme, acridity, acrimony, acuity, aculeate, acuminate, acumination, acuteness, adjoin, advantage, air line, allowance, alpha, anxious, apex, apogee, apprehensive, asperity,… …

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  • 19Board shear — Used extensively in bookbinding, a board shear is a large, hand operated machine for cutting board or paper. Like scissors, a board shear uses two blades to apply shear stress exceeding the paper s shear strength in order to cut. The stationary… …

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  • 20board — noun 1》 a long, thin, flat piece of wood used for floors or other building purposes.     ↘(the boards) informal the stage of a theatre. 2》 a thin, flat rectangular piece of stiff material, e.g. a chopping board or noticeboard.     ↘the piece of… …

    English new terms dictionary