Proper noun
(countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
(uncountable) A placename:
A suburb and civil parish in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1600).
A hamlet in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2077).
A village in Broughton and Bretton community, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3563).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAmerican delegate Harry Dexter White foresaw an IMF that functioned more like a bank, making sure that borrowing states could repay their debts on time. citation Most of White's plan was incorporated into the final acts adopted at Bretton Woods. Source: Internet
As the key 1968 event Elliott and Atkinson picked out America's suspension of the conversion of the dollar into gold except on request of foreign governments, which they identified as the beginning of the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system. Source: Internet
However, it was not until 2002, after intense macroeconomic reform measures, that the dinar became convertible—a first since the Bretton Woods Agreements laid out the post- World War II international exchange rate regime. Source: Internet
Crawley p. 427 U.S. dollar crisis In the Bretton Woods system put in place in 1944, U.S. dollars were convertible to gold. Source: Internet
Following mounting pressure from the Bretton Woods institutions, former trade unionist turned politician Frederick Chiluba would embark on an ambitious structural adjustment programme (SAP) to resuscitate the ailing economy. Source: Internet
The only exception in all that time was in the run-up to the gold pool failure in the late sixties and after President Nixon discarded the last vestiges of sound money by ending the Bretton Woods agreement in 1970. Source: Internet