Fort Knox

American  

noun

1. a military reservation in N Kentucky, SSW of Louisville: location of U.S. federal gold depository since 1936.

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Fort Knox British  

/ nɒks /

noun

1. a military reservation in N Kentucky: site of the US Gold Bullion Depository. Pop: 12 377 (2000)

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Example Sentences

"It really is like Fort Knox," he said.

From BBC

“It was like Fort Knox,” Williams said.

From The Wall Street Journal

A working gold toilet seems a much better use of bullion than, say, making it into bars and then just having it sit, useless, in vaults in Fort Knox.

From MarketWatch

If it takes an audit of Fort Knox to verify the gold, so be it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mint locations in Fort Knox, Kan.; West Point, N.Y.; and Denver, as well as a small amount in the vaults at the New York Federal Reserve, according to Edmund Moy, a former director of the U.S.

From MarketWatch

Related Words

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