fannie mae

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   a federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages

   SynonymsFederal National Mortgage AssociationFNMA

   Broadercorporation

Questions about fannie mae

What does fannie mae mean?

fannie mae means "a federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages".

What is another word for fannie mae?

Close synonyms include Federal National Mortgage Association, FNMA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fannie mae a common word?

fannie mae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.