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monetary, a.|ˈmɒn-, ˈmʌnɪtərɪ|
[ad. L. monētāri-us of or belonging to the mint, f. monēta mint: see money.]
1. Of or pertaining to the coinage or currency.
monetary unit, the standard unit of value of a country's coinage.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 148 Monetary forgery—forgery in relation to the current coin. 1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 208 The principles of what he terms monetary value. 1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. iv. 85 The whole monetary system of Europe was..abandoned to the depredations of sovereigns, who continually varied the title and weight of coins. 1853Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. vi. 56 The effigy of Pan was adopted as a monetary type by the Panticapeans. 1874Green Short Hist. i. §6. 53 Laws which regulated the monetary standard.
2. Pertaining to or concerned with money, pecuniary.
1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. xi. 330 Monetary asceticism, consisting in the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of money. 1865Bright Sp. Canada 13 Mar. (1876) 67/1 Men who are deep in great monetary transactions. 1866Crump Banking iii. 74 The person who introduces a customer to a bank is expected to have some knowledge..of his friend's monetary affairs. 1872J. H. Gladstone Faraday ii. 76 But it was not in monetary gifts alone that his kindness to the distressed was shown. 1936J. M. Keynes Gen. Theory Employment xv. 203 A monetary policy which strikes public opinion as being experimental in character or easily liable to change may fail in its objective. 1944, etc. [see International Monetary Fund s.v. international a. 2]. 1951R. Firth Elements of Social Organization iv. 142 Even where monetary rewards for labour are largely current, he has noted that work may be undertaken for other than money symbols. 1961Ann. Reg. 1960 475 The measures ranged from the traditional restraints to a new and previously untried monetary instrument. 1973Times 6 July 17/1 The ‘Smithsonian’ agreement, which President Nixon characterized..as ‘the most significant monetary agreement in the history of the world’.
Add: Hence ˈmonetarily (also moneˈtarily) adv., as regards money, financially.
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1907Pennsylvania State Rep. CCXVII. 221 He is concerned, monetarily, in having the $500,000 applied to the specific purpose for which it was appropriated. 1942Rep. US Board Tax Appeals XLIV. 403 It may have been somewhat difficult to determine the precise amount of the petitioner's liability to pay the principal and interest of its debentures, yet the liability was real and monetarily measurable. 1968Punch 13 Nov. 684/1 There are the financial serendipitists, the men blessed monetarily by a fortunate law. 1992Daily Tel. 17 Sept. 19/3 German money supply is growing too fast for the Bundesbank's liking, and the monetarily correct response is high interest rates. |