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nerve centre noun

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Definition

a place from which an organization or activity is controlled or managed
The Pentagon is the nerve centre of the US Armed Forces.

(Definition of nerve centre noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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