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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Even at these elevated prices, central banks around the world have continued to accumulate.
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Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Still, at last week’s Fed meeting, seven of the 19 officials who participate in the central bank’s interest-rate decisions supported keeping rates unchanged for the rest of this year, and two penciled in just one cut.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
Powell leads the Federal Open Market Committee and is one of more than a dozen central bank officials who vote on the bank's interest rate.
—Jordan King
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
President Trump on Friday floated the possibility of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as part of his latest round of intense criticism of the leader of the central bank over its decision not to lower interest rates.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 20 June 2025
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Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Still, at last week’s Fed meeting, seven of the 19 officials who participate in the central bank’s interest-rate decisions supported keeping rates unchanged for the rest of this year, and two penciled in just one cut.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
Powell leads the Federal Open Market Committee and is one of more than a dozen central bank officials who vote on the bank's interest rate.
—Jordan King
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
President Trump on Friday floated the possibility of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as part of his latest round of intense criticism of the leader of the central bank over its decision not to lower interest rates.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 20 June 2025
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“Central bank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/central%20bank. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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