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单词 nerve centers
释义

nerve center

noun

1
: center sense 2c
2
: a source of leadership, organization, control, or energy
the financial nerve center of the nation

Synonyms

  • axis
  • base
  • capital
  • center
  • central
  • core
  • cynosure
  • epicenter
  • eye
  • focus
  • ground zero
  • heart
  • hub
  • locus
  • mecca
  • navel
  • nexus
  • nucleus
  • omphalos
  • seat
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Example Sentences

the economic nerve center of a nation Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance.
Recent Examples on the Web Operators set about disconnecting podlike metal cells that turn white alumina powder into molten aluminum in the vast hall that is the factory’s nerve center. Joe Wallace, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022 In a little more than a decade, Kate Holbrook rose from being a student of American religion to sitting atop the nerve center for the burgeoning historical study of Latter-day Saint women. The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022 An inflation nerve center could be just as effective, by concentrating the organizational capabilities required to get ahead of events. Asutosh Padhi, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022 Seattle’s transition from slacker town to nerve center of Big Tech. E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022 Just now, after Getty acquired it from the Duke of Sutherland, it had been rebooted as the nerve center of Getty’s worldwide petroleum empire, and his 72-room home. James Reginato, Town & Country, 5 July 2022 The nerve center of their operations was a Soviet-era building on 144 Yablunska Street. Thomas Grove, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022 This isn’t the first time the neighborhood became the nerve center of protests against anti-Muslim discrimination. Tarushi Aswani, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2022 There’s music all weekend at the village green, overlooking the Ottauquechee, the nerve center for the festival. Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Medical Definition

nerve center

noun

: center

nerve centers

noun

plural of nerve center
as in centers
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • centers
  • hubs
  • capitals
  • meccas
  • focuses
  • nuclei
  • bases
  • hearts
  • seats
  • cores
  • nucleuses
  • ground zeros
  • cynosures
  • nexus
  • loci
  • epicenters
  • playgrounds
  • omphali
  • foci
  • axes
  • centrals
  • nexuses
  • headquarters
  • hot spots
  • navels
  • eyes
  • kernels
  • hives
  • magnets
  • polestars
  • attractions
  • happy hunting grounds
  • hotbeds
  • loadstones
  • essences
  • piths
  • playlands
  • nubs
  • thicks
  • souls
  • quintessences
  • deeps
  • lodestones
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