ECB

English

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Proper noun

ECB

1. Initialism of European Central Bank.
   • 2011 August 15, “A wind of change”, in The Financial Times‎:

     With more than €300bn of new bonds to be issued next year, Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, and his colleagues had reason to be grateful to the ECB.

   • 2012 March 8, Ben Rooney, “ECB: Gloomy on economy, upbeat on euro”, in CNN Money‎:

     The latest projections were issued after a policy meeting at ECB headquarters in Frankfurt, where the bank's governing council voted to hold interest rates steady at 1%, as expected.

2. (cricket) Initialism of England and Wales Cricket Board (“the governing body for the sport of cricket in England and Wales”).

Translations

European Central Bank

Armenian: ԵԿԲ (hy) (EKB) Catalan: BCE m Czech: ECB (cs) Danish: ECB Dutch: ECB f Estonian: EKP Finnish: EKP (fi) French: BCE (fr) f Galician: BCE (gl) m German: EZB (de) f Greek: ΕΚΤ (el) (EKT) Irish: BCE Italian: BCE (it) f Polish: EBC (pl) Portuguese: BCE m Russian: ЕЦБ (ru) (JeCB) Spanish: BCE (es) m Swedish: ECB

Noun

ECB

1. (computing) Initialism of event control block (IBM).

Further reading

• “ECB”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “ECB”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “the ECB”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “the ECB” (US) / “the ECB” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• B.C.E., BCE, CBE, EBC