Fort Knox

noun

1. a military reservation in N Kentucky, SSW of Louisville: location of U.S. federal gold depository since 1936.

Fort Knox

/ nɒks /

noun

1. a military reservation in N Kentucky: site of the US Gold Bullion Depository. Pop: 12 377 (2000)

Example Sentences

The $100m-facility is often dubbed Asia's Fort Knox.

From BBC

Mr Tait was revealed as the Fujitsu source who told Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells that Horizon was "like Fort Knox" - a claim she repeated in a letter to Parliament in 2020.

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Ex-Fujitsu boss admits calling Horizon 'Fort Knox'

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A former head of Fujitsu UK has admitted that he told former Post Office boss, Paula Vennells, that the Horizon IT system was like "Fort Knox".

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In a statement to the BBC, Mr Tait said: "As the public inquiry is already aware, I did refer to Fort Knox in a conversation with Paula Vennells - this was in relation to the cyber and physical security of Horizon and was unrelated to the remote access issue."

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