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The apex bank said that the situation could not be allowed to continue as it was affecting the overall stability of the financial system.
The apex regulatory banking institution in the country is the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Apex funds are capital funds which are made available by apex institutions to retail-level finance institutions for the purposes of making loans.
The National Commission for Informatics was created as the apex government body dealing with IT in the country.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes, the apex direct taxes body, withdrew the blanket exemption the scheme had previously been granted.

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UK politics: government administration & organization
Apex
noun[ U ], adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈeɪ.peks/ us /ˈeɪ.peks/
abbreviation for Advance Purchase Excursion: a system of cheap travel tickets that must be bought a particular number of days before travelling: 预付款旅游票优惠（Advance Purchase Excursion的缩写）
an Apex fare预付款旅游票优惠价

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apex | American Dictionary

apex
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/ˈeɪ·peks/
the highest point or top of something:
the apex of a pyramid
He reached the apex of his career during that period.

Apex | Business English

Apex
noun[ C ]
(alsoAPEX)uk /ˈeɪpeks/us
TRANSPORT
a train or plane ticket that is cheaper than the usual price because you buy it several days or weeks before you travel:
First Great Western's cheapest fare, an Apex, must be booked at least a week before travel.
an Apex ticket/fare

Examples of apex

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Even the patient should understand if told the heart is in the right side of the chest with the apex pointing to the right!
On each twig the second or third fully expanded leaf (numbered from apex to base) was selected.
The apex can be directed to the right, to the left, or to the middle.
An apex cardiogram suggested that enddiastolic pressure was not markedly elevated.
Visual leaf counts were conducted by weekly examination of the eighth main stem leaf from the plant apex.
Primary education's share of total federal government spending on education reached its apex just before the 1986 elections for the constituent assembly.
Normal mental imagery is not hallucinatory and is highly constrained by dorsolateral prefrontal structures (among other things) which are deactivated during most apex dreaming.
The continuities can be striking, most notably at the apex of power.
Since most of the leaves of all species were at the apex of the stem, this did not involve burying any leaves.
Overhead is the old composite timber and steel truss roof, its apex bearing a continuous run of automatically opening greenhouse lights.
The apices could be seen as belonging to the same (middle) object, or to two different (flanking) objects.
Newly opened flowers were taken from the apices of the plant and young leaves were removed from the first group below the inflorescence.
One major finding of this study is that flowers situated near the apex of the inflorescence set more and larger seeds than basal flowers.
These bundles divide the apical component of the right ventricle into two segments, each with its own apex.
These data suggest that the apex of the prostate bed may be more inferior in patients after radical prostatectomy than in those with intact prostates.
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