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Ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country
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demonetization
Word definitions for demonetization in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act or process of demonetize
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country [syn: demonetisation ] [ant: monetization ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1852, from French démonétisation , from démonetiser (see demonetize ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
demonetization \de*mon`e*ti*za"tion\, n. The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized; specificially, the declaration by a government that something (e.g. gold or silver) is no longer the legal tender of a country; as, the demonetization ...
Usage examples of demonetization.
The Toledo platform, as the resolutions adopted by this conference came to be designated, first denounced "the limiting of the legal-tender quality of greenbacks, the changing of currency-bonds into coin-bonds, the demonetization of the silver dollar, the excepting of bonds from taxation, the contraction of the circulating medium, the proposed forced resumption of specie payments, and the prodigal waste of the public lands.