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Frankfurt
Frankfurt
See also: frankfurt
English
Proper noun
Frankfurt
- Frankfurt-am-Main, a city in central Germany.
- (by extension) the German financial industry.
- 1998, Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH Information Services, German Brief, volume 10:
- 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:
- (by extension) the European Central Bank.
- 2014, May 9, Dan O'Brien, Irish Independent, "Trichet like a broken record when what we need is fresh thinking":
- 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, Irish Independent, "Trichet like a broken record when what we need is fresh thinking":
- (by extension) the German financial industry.
- Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, a city near Berlin Germany.
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Translations
Frankfurt-am-Main
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Frankfurt-an-der-Oder
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German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Frankfurt n (genitive Frankfurts, plural Frankfurt)
- Frankfurt
- 1858, Austria. Wochenschrift für Volkswirthschaft und Statistik. Des X. Jahrgangs IV. Band., Wien, page 365:
- Im Uebrigen gewähren Leipzig, die beiden Frankfurt und Braunschweig zur Zeit der Messen lediglich dasselbe Bild, was Hamburg, Bremen, Triest, Stettin alle Tage im Jahr gewähren.
- 1858, Austria. Wochenschrift für Volkswirthschaft und Statistik. Des X. Jahrgangs IV. Band., Wien, page 365:
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frankfurt
frankfurt
See also: Frankfurt
English
Noun
frankfurt (plural frankfurts)
- (US, Australia) A frankfurter; a hot dog sausage.
- 1919, Michigan Office of Dairy and Food Commissioner, Annual report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan, Volume 25, page 81,
- Sample of frankfurts procured from Stanley Kwiatkowski, Grand Rapids, Mich. Contains excessive amount of cereal.
- 1942, Robert Byron Hinman, Robert Bernard Harris, The Story of Meat, page 137,
- Frankfurts of the highest quality are prepared generally from a mixture of approximately half beef and half pork.
- 2016 June 10, smithxpj, “Ham banned in Broadmeadows”, in aus.consumers, Usenet:
- As a kid in the 50s, (before we became infested with the current mish-mash of liquorice allsorts) pork fritz, devon, sliced ham, frankfurts, pork sausages...were all about as common a staple as you care to name. Even the Italians and Greeks of the time ate (and continue to eat) the stuff!!
- 1919, Michigan Office of Dairy and Food Commissioner, Annual report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan, Volume 25, page 81,
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- cocktail frankfurt