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Bretton Woods

Bretton Woods proper noun: an unincorporated community in the town of Carroll, Coos County, New Hampshire, United States.

Proper noun

Bretton Woods

  1. An unincorporated community in the town of Carroll, Coos County, New Hampshire, United States.
  2. A fixed exchange rate system in which the dollar was convertible to gold and all other participating currencies were pegged to the dollar.

Origin of Bretton Woods

(economics): Formulated at a 1944 conference at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States.

Questions about Bretton Woods

What does Bretton Woods mean?
Bretton Woods means an unincorporated community in the town of Carroll, Coos County, New Hampshire, United States.
What part of speech is Bretton Woods?
Bretton Woods is a proper noun.

Words near Bretton Woods in the dictionary

  1. brettice
  2. bretticed
  3. brettices
  4. bretticing
  5. Bretton
  6. Bretton Woods
  7. Brettons
  8. bretts
  9. bretwalda
  10. bretwaldas
  11. bretwaldaship

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