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The Collaborative International Dictionary
demonetization

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 of gold.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
demonetization

1852, from French démonétisation, from démonetiser (see demonetize).

Wiktionary
demonetization

n. The act or process of demonetize

WordNet
demonetization

n. ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country [syn: demonetisation] [ant: monetization]

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.