The phrase "a central body" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a main or primary organization, group, or entity that holds authority or responsibility in a particular context.
Example: "The central body responsible for overseeing the project will meet next week to discuss the next steps."
Alternatives: "a main organization" or "a primary entity."
Since 2009 Britons have been urged to report such fraud to a central body, Action Fraud.
A clearinghouse is a central body through which trades take place.
The alternative name, coelenterate, refers to their simple organization around a central body cavity (the coelenteron).
Officials say they believe that if the swaps were traded through a central body, the volume of trading could be tracked and prices would become clear.
The stones typically had a central body 20mm in diameter with two, four or six projecting spikes of the same length.
I proposed the CCS to the public administration select committee in January 2013, envisaging a central body of expertise that would let and manage government departmental contracts.
At the end of the First World War, the government made plans to create a Ministry of Health, a new central body with scope for unprecedented co-ordination of health-related concerns.
He added: "Either Europe will have a weak central body and a confederation of independent states, and that will not work.
The transition from pre to postmenopause may be associated with features of the metabolic syndrome, including an increased central body fat, a shift toward a more atherogenic lipid profile, as well as other risk factors.
The model of the spacecraft is composed of a rigid central body actuated by a torque motor around the vertical axis with two flexible appendages and a local mass at the tip of each appendage.
In a July 2011 report, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee called for a single, central body responsible for ensuring research integrity an idea subsequently rejected by the government.
