| 单词 | central bank |
| 释义 | > as lemmascentral bank central bank n. a financial institution that provides banking services to a country’s government and commercial banking system, being responsible for delivering the government's monetary objectives, and often performing other functions such as issuing currency, managing the national debt, and acting as the principal regulator for the commercial financial sector.In early use probably not as a fixed collocation. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > other types of bank merchant bank1620 land-bank1696 private bank1696 paper bankc1720 national bank1736 bank of circulation1767 bank of deposit1767 corporate bank1780 state bank1791 branch bank1796 reserve bank1816 investment bank1824 bank of issue1831 commercial bank1838 red dog1838 wild cat1838 central bank1841 national bank1864 investment house1878 issue house1878 clearing-bank1883 issuing house1890 member bank1914 custodian1915 merchant banker1924 Swiss bank1949 development bank1950 Transcash1982 telephone bank1985 bancassurer1991 1841 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. Apr. 332 To enjoy the full benefit of the banking system, you must combine with them [sc. local banks] a central bank..to serve the double purpose of checking the local banks, and furnishing a currency that can be used everywhere. 1844 R. Peel Speeches House of Commons Renewal of Bank Charter 31 When the privileges of the Central Bank ceased..then came..immoderate issues of paper, extravagant speculation. 1873 Daily News 3 Feb. 5/5 It is..an anomaly of the worst sort that a body of gentlemen who are not professional bankers..should control the central Bank of the Kingdom, on whose action the credit system of the whole country depends. 1930 J. M. Keynes Treat. Money II. xxxii. 225 The first necessity of a Central Bank..is to make sure that it has an unchallengeable control over the total volume of bank-money created by its Member Banks. 1965 J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 62/2 It is not thought advisable for a central bank to compete with the commercial banks and, therefore, it should not engage in ordinary banking business. 2009 Independent 19 Feb. 1/2 The severity of the recession has driven the usually conservative central bank to throw caution to the winds. < as lemmas |
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