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Definition of Demonetise
1. Verb. Deprive of value for payment. "Demonetize a coin"
Generic synonyms: Devaluate, Devalue
Derivative terms: Demonetisation, Demonetization
Definition of Demonetise
1. Verb. To remove the status of legal tender from a coin etc. and remove it from circulation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demonetise
Literary usage of Demonetise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"... gold as long as there is any gold to demonetise, but that when once all the
gold has been ... and ceases when there is no more metal to demonetise. ..."
2. Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903, a Biography by Caroline Augusta Lloyd (1912)
"The same Constitution that could demonetise silver can ... or demonetise gold
for a better money than either. . . . Women will vote, and some day we will ..."
3. Journal of the Institute of Bankers by Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) (1886)
"The world did not demonetise gold, the bi-metallic system was adhered to in
Europe, and the prodigious quantity of gold which was produced was diffused all ..."
4. The New Golden Age and Influence of the Precious Metals Upon the World by Robert Hogarth Patterson (1882)
"As money, gold acquires a legal value, besides its ordinary value as merchandise.
demonetise both gold and silver (as it is ..."
5. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"... of weight sufficient to demonetise a gold coin, or to make it no longer legal
tender. The fact that the currency of coins itself effects a separation ..."
6. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"... Conference of 1867, she resolved to adopt the gold standard, and demonetise
the silver which had previously formed her legal tender money. ..."
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