WordNet
n. the value behind the money in a monetary system [syn: standard]
Usage examples of "monetary standard".
Long before flight into deep space became a fact, the metal had assumed a fantastic value on Earth,, The opening of the interstellar frontier drove its price down to a manageable level, and gradually it emerged as the basic, stable monetary standard of space trade.
The program allows the native culture to shift to a monetary standard and provides entry-level jobs for native children after school and during summers.
But Derec was quick to regroup, and he was now admitting to himself that Wolruf's contribution might well amount to more than two cents, Galactic Monetary Standard.
A very weakly magnetic alloy of it with such base metals as iron, gold, silver, copper, or zinc, had formed the sole monetary standard of the hidden people at one period of their history.
Gold is, as everyone knows, the monetary standard that upholds nations!
He laughed to see the peasants rushing around with buckets, determined to catch every drop of the commodity that was so precious it had become the monetary standard in human lands (one barl equaled one barrel of water).