Francfort

Proper noun

Frankfurt

1. The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.
   • Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters.2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10...
   1. (metonymically) The German financial industry.
      • The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia.1998, Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH Information Services, German Brief, volume 10
   2. (metonymically) The European Central Bank.
      • Despite this risk, little has happened in the six months since Frankfurt cut interest rates causing one to wonder how different Draghi is from his predecessor.2014 May 9, Dan O'Brien, “Trichet like a broken record when what we need is fresh thinking”, in Irish Independent, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2014
2. A sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany; in full, Frankfurt an der Oder.

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