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nerve centre

noun

  1. a group of nerve cells associated with a specific function
  2. a principal source of control over any complex activity

    Wall Street is the financial nerve centre of America

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

His office, in which I was permitted to take notes for several days, is a nerve-centre of the world.

A thousand needles shot through him—every one, it seemed, passing through a nerve-centre and back the same path again.

There are still no compact muscles, like our own, much less ganglion or brain or nerve-centre of individuality.

Most people call him a nerve centre, but you wouldn't understand that, so I say wait and see.

But in this case also it is necessary that the nerve-centre be sound.

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