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

TOKYO—Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda has been hospitalized and is expected to miss next week’s monetary policy meeting, the central bank said Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The predicted tightening of monetary policy comes as rising oil prices have stoked inflation in the bloc, with the eurozone’s economy contracting by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2026.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Tighter monetary policy was also a factor around the deflating of the dot-com bubble, Perkins notes.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

The European Central Bank’s monetary policy decision on Thursday is the week’s highlight, where a 25-basis-point interest-rate hike is fully expected to counteract inflationary impacts from higher oil prices due to the Middle East conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 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