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

Examples of central bank in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At that point a central bank is no longer looking at a harvest but at second-round effects, and its instrument for those is the price of money. — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Bonds send the Fed a warning While the Fed left interest rates unchanged Wednesday afternoon, three out of the 12 members on the central bank’s policymaking committee voted for a hike. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2026

The central bank issued its fifth such halt this week following a two-day meeting, leaving borrowers saddled with higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages. — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Warsh reaffirmed on Wednesday the Fed wants to get inflation back to 2%, even though the central bank decided not to raise interest rates despite inflation remaining higher than that. — Stan Choe, Fortune, 31 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for central bank

• antitank
• interbank
• riverbank
• banc
• blank
• clank
• crank
• dank
• drank
• flank
• franc
• hank

Legal Definition

central bank

see also:

bank