Regulation U

American  

noun

1. (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.

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Example Sentences

Soccer has long flourished in the sunshine zone, but it is regulation U. S. football, in felt-padded moleskins, that University of Mexico students are learning to play.

From Time Magazine Archive

But as I looked longer, noting how little by comparison were the trains I knew to be of regulation U. S. size, how literally tiny were the scores upon scores of men far down below who were doing this thing, its significance regained bit by bit its proper proportions.

From Project Gutenberg