the Beige Book

noun [S] ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENT

Definition

› in the US, a report on economic conditions that is published eight times a year by the Federal Reserve Board: The latest Beige Book - an overview of the US economy - showed only slow growth in employment.

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(Definition of the Beige Book noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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