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EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The central bank of those members of the European Union who share a common currency
Example:
The European Central Bank is Europe's equivalent of the Federal Reserve
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("European Central Bank" is a kind of...):
central bank (a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government)