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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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