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Glass-Steagall Act
Glass-Stea·gall Act [ glàss stg'l àkt ]


noun 
Definition:
 
former banking law: a law, now abolished, that prevented commercial banks from carrying out investment banking, and vice versa
[After the sponsors of the legislation]
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