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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First, global central banks have begun a coordinated monetary easing cycle, cutting interest rates to stimulate economic growth. —

Frank Holmes, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 The Federal Reserve Bank, our independent central bank, manages these factors based on oodles of data on prices, employment, trade, capital inflows, credit and financial assets, all of which can lead to a rate cut like the one recently announced. —

Aine Seitz McCarthy, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2025 Mortgage rates haven't dipped along with the Fed's cuts because they're based on several factors besides the central bank's benchmark rate. —

Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025 The central bank downgraded France’s growth outlook for 2025 to an anemic 0.9%, from 1.2%. —

Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for central bank