Board of Governors
Definition 1
The governing body of the Federal Reserve System, which is responsible for U.S. monetary policy.
Definition 2
The members of a stock exchange that supervise the functioning of the exchange.
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Related terms:
Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve Board, Fed, Federal Reserve System, FOMC
'Board of Governors' appears in the definitions of these other terms on BusinessDictionary.com:
Federal Reserve System (The Fed), International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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