reserve asset

collocation in English

meaningsofreserveandasset

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reserve
noun
uk
/rɪˈzɜːv/
us
/rɪˈzɝːv/
the habit of not showing your feelings ...
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asset
noun
uk
/ˈæs.et/
us
/ˈæs.et/
a useful or valuable quality, skill, ...
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(Definition ofreserveandassetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As the wartime debts were run down and replaced by foreign exchange reserves, the sterling balances 'problem' came to re-ect sterling's role as an internationalreserveassetduring the 1950s.
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Clearly, gold will not be supplanted as areserveassetfor many years to come; neither will the reserve currencies.
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The ideas for international monetary reform now under discussion are designed to improve thereserveassetstructure and bring greater stability in international payments.
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That is undistributed; it is areserveassetwhich can be used for the purpose of bonus distributions or anything of the kind.
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What we obviously need is a new internationalreserveasset.
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Today we have a multiplereserveassetstandard, the disadvantages of which are becoming increasingly manifest.
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We needreserveassetratios to curb liquidity leakages which merely increase indebtedness and consumption.
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He argued thatreserveassetratios were merely an instrument by which interest rates were manipulated.
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It must be brought to an end by being replaced by an internationalreserveassetwhich must be created.
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First, any proposal would have to be acceptable to official holders of sterling, who would need an alternativereserveasset.
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The continued use of gold as a principalreserveassetis, moreover, highly expensive in terms of resources.
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More and more frequently those banks are facingreserveassetrequirements.
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Thereserveassetratios had gone; exchange control had gone.
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It would be a financial asset for the private sector and areserveassetfor foreign central banks.
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They removed thereserveassetratios established by the banks.
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The interim committee dodged even the creation of a substitution account which might offer some small alleviation of the problems of the dollar as the world's onlyreserveasset.
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There can be little doubt that the most satisfactory system would be for the dollar to be fully demonetised internationally instead of the dollar being retained as areserveasset.
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Under a gold standard, thereserveassetfor all members of the standard is gold.
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Each central bank maintained gold reserves as their officialreserveasset.
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I am certainly conscious of the recent rise in reserve assets in the banking system.
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