central reserve

British  

noun

1. US and Austral name: median strip.  Canadian name: median.  the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway

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Example Sentences

Police, central reserve forces, the army and plainclothes officers were deployed on Khartoum's Airport Road to block the protests.

From Reuters • Jul. 19, 2022

Reserve city and central reserve city banks can use all vault cash over 1% of net demand deposits, v. the current 2%, in meeting reserve requirements.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of the other eight central reserve banks will soon follow; the cuts are expected to lead to lower interest rates to boost loans and business expansion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nations also need a new medium of exchange to replace the dollar as the world's central reserve currency.

From Time Magazine Archive

The strong economic pressure toward concentration is thus left free to act toward drawing reserves into banks located in the reserve and central reserve cities.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur