ECB

English

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

ECB

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

     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.

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