central bank

noun

: a national bank that operates to establish monetary and fiscal policy and to control the money supply and interest rate

central banker noun

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While the central bank doesn’t set mortgage rates, its actions and the trajectory of inflation influence the moves in the 10-year Treasury yield. —

Alex Veiga, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024 To their leading lights, all a government needs is a central bank armed with a printing press. —

John Tamny, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024 Fed fund futures trading as of mid-day Friday indicated a nearly 90% chance the central bank would cut by 25 basis points, according to CME FedWatch. —

Lewis Krauskopf, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024 The central bank is balancing India’s high inflation and a slowing economy: year-on-year prices rose 6.21% in October, while the country’s fiscal third-quarter gross domestic product grew by a surprisingly low 5.4% from a year ago. —

Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for central bank