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- Central Bank
A financial institution that has official or semiofficial status in a federal government. They are used by governments to expand, contract, or stabilize the supply of money and credit. For example, the U.S. central bank is the Federal Reserve, and the ECB (European Central Bank) manages monetary policy for the European Union.