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legal reserve

American  

noun

  1. the amount of cash assets that a bank, insurance company, etc., is required by law to set aside as reserves.


Etymology

Origin of legal reserve

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

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Lovejoy thought about the Brazilian law and realized that the legal reserve could provide a way to probe these questions.

From Nature • Apr. 17, 2013

The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, which is the oldest legal reserve life insurance company in America, reported 1923 as the greatest year in its 81 years of existence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week Bill Douglas declared that at the end of 1937 there were 308 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $26,249,049,219.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some 365 legal reserve life insurance companies in the U. S. have assets totaling over $28,000,000,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only a portion of this output is consumed by the arts and in jewelry, and in the natural legal reserve of Governments.

From Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History by Grable, F. C.

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