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Zeist

American  
[zahyst] / zaɪst /

noun

  1. a city in the central Netherlands.


Zeist British  
/ zaɪst, zɛjst /

noun

  1. a city in the central Netherlands, near Utrecht. Pop: 60 000 (2003 est)

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More than 27 tons of gold were physically transferred from the U.S. and Canada to Zeist, the bank said, before a similar quantity of international standard gold was then moved to London from Zeist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

DNB said the transfer, which took place between March and August, saw 27 tonnes of gold bars moved from New York and Ottawa to Zeist in the Netherlands.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

The same quantity of gold was moved from Zeist to London, preventing the melting down of gold bars.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

At a Scottish trial before a court at Camp Zeist in The Netherlands, Megrahi was found guilty of the bombing in 2001 and was jailed for life.

From Reuters ● Dec. 12, 2022

M. de Zeist, one of the richest Nobles of this Province, is Deputy of the Province of Utrecht, in which he has a great Estate.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

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