Well attestedNamed from the place
Bretton Woods
noun · first attested 1944
The world's monetary order is named for a resort hotel in the New Hampshire woods.
The postwar system of exchange rates fixed against the dollar, together with the 1944 conference and the institutions it created.
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Bretton Woods
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Bretton Woods
Delegates from 44 nations met in July 1944 at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, chosen partly because it was remote and had enough beds. The fixed-rate system broke down in 1971, but the name still attaches to the IMF and the World Bank.
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