1.
[syn: Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve, Fed, FRS]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
FRS
n 1: the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12
Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and
state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies;
"the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by
raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the
money supply" [syn: Federal Reserve System, Federal
Reserve, Fed, FRS]
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
FRS
Frame Relay Service (ATM, UNI)
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
FRS
Flexible Route Selection
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
FRS
//, n.,obs.
[obs.] Abbreviation for ?Freely Redistributable Software? which entered
general use on the Internet in 1995 after years of low-level confusion over
what exactly to call software written to be passed around and shared
(contending terms including freeware, shareware, and sourceware were
never universally felt to be satisfactory for various subtle reasons). The
first formal conference on freely redistributable software was held in
Cambridge, Massachussetts, in February 1996 (sponsored by the Free Software
Foundation). The conference organizers used the FRS abbreviation heavily in
its calls for papers and other literature during 1995. The term was in
steady though not common use until 1998 and the invention of open source,
after which it became swiftly obsolete.