monetary policy

Cultural  

1. An attempt to achieve broad economic goals by the regulation of the supply of money. (Compare fiscal policy.)

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Example Sentences

A related consideration is how monetary policy should interact with fiscal policy in an era of a structurally large federal deficit.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

But monetary policy operates with long and variable lags.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

The decision makes the ECB the first major central bank to tighten monetary policy in response to the jump in energy prices, which has driven inflation above 3% in the eurozone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

“Yes, I did say that it’s not an insurance interest-rate decision. Simply because it’s a good monetary policy interest-rate decision,” Lagarde replied.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

One kind of monetary policy, which involves the central bank buying private assets, is chunked as quantitative easing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker