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Definition of Monetary system
1. Noun. Anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region.
Generic synonyms: Criterion, Measure, Standard, Touchstone
Specialized synonyms: Legal Tender, Stamp, Tender, Money, Currency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monetary System
Literary usage of Monetary system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law by John William Burgess (1891)
"Legislation in respect to the monetary system. The constitution confers upon the
Imperial legislature the power to regulate the monetary system, ..."
2. Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law by John William Burgess (1890)
"Legislation in respect to the monetary system. The constitution confers upon the
Imperial legislature the power to regulate the monetary system, ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"The monetary system of Ireland had long been in disorder. She had no mint of her
own, which of itself was a serious disadvantage, and commercial stagnation ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"A correspondent of the New York Tribune gives the following account of the currency
of Hayti :— The monetary system differs from that of other countries, ..."
5. Lectures on the Nature and Use of Money: Delivered Before the Members of the by John Gray (1848)
"The book seems, in short, from the beginning to the end, to be pretty closely
confined to an attack upon the monetary system of society, ..."
6. The History of Currency, 1252-1894: Being an Account of the Gold and Silver by William Arthur Shaw (1896)
"In its first beginning her monetary system had relation to that of the restored
Empire. The silver fiorino of which the first mention occurs was equivalent ..."
7. Lectures on the Nature and Use of Money: Delivered Before the Members of the by John Gray (1848)
"The book seems, in short, from the beginning to the end, to be pretty closely
confined to an attack upon the monetary system of society, ..."
8. Capital (1888)
"The European monetary system EVEN the sceptics who doubted an economic ''summit"
meeting could achieve much (the latest one, in Bonn in July, ..."