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RESERVE ASSETS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reserve assets mean?
• RESERVE ASSETS (noun)
The noun RESERVE ASSETS has 1 sense:
1. capital held back from investment in order to meet probable or possible demands
Familiarity information: RESERVE ASSETS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capital held back from investment in order to meet probable or possible demands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("reserve assets" is a kind of...):
assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reserve assets"):
paper gold; special drawing rights (reserve assets in the International Monetary Fund; designed to supplement reserves of gold and convertible currencies used to maintain stability in the foreign exchange market)
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