单词 | monetary |
释义 | monetaryadj. 1. Of or relating to coinage or currency, esp. that of a particular country; relating to money in the form of coins, notes, or other units of account. monetary unit n. the standard unit of value of a country's coinage. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [adjective] monetary1663 1663 J. Beale Let. 9 Nov. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 195 What this denarius would value of our money wee shall not easily guesse. For though our Monetary Critiques doe render it 7 ½d, Yet who can say, Howe neere that may amount to 1, 2, or 3 shillings if he considers howe much a penny, or shilling of English money hath alterd in 300 years; & the like of forreigne alterations. 1790 Times 2 Oct. 3/5 This question induced M. Mirabeau to make a long harangue on the defects and abuses which shamefully exist in the monetary system. 1810 Naval Chron. 24 300 The monetary unit is a piece of silver weighing five grams. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. i. viii. 148 Monetary forgery.—Forgery in relation to the current coin. 1853 H. N. Humphreys Coin Collector's Man. I. vi. 56 The effigy of Pan was adopted as a monetary type by the Panticapeans. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §6. 53 Laws which regulated the monetary standard. 1927 Times 18 Nov. 24/4 The monetary unit chosen is the gold franc (5 lek).., with a parity of approximately 25 to the £. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. II. 674/2 In May 1952 a drastic monetary reform was carried out whereby the lev was linked to the Russian rouble at the rate of 1·70 leva = 1 rouble. 1993 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. iii. 11/4 France..has not reduced its benchmark lending rate since the monetary system crashed in mid-summer. 2. Of the nature of, relating to, or concerned with money, with reference to its value or purchasing power; pecuniary, financial. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [adjective] pecunial1516 pecuniary1612 denariate1632 pounds, shillings, and pence?1650 monetary1838 1838 Southern Literary Messenger May 344 The distracted state of the monetary affairs of our country. 1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 330 Monetary asceticism, consisting in the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of money. 1872 J. H. Gladstone Faraday ii. 76 But it was not in monetary gifts alone that his kindness to the distressed was shown. 1936 J. M. Keynes Gen. Theory Employment v. xxi. 294 So long as there exists any durable asset, it is capable of possessing monetary attributes. 1973 Times 6 July 17/1 The ‘Smithsonian’ agreement, which President Nixon characterized..as ‘the most significant monetary agreement in the history of the world’. 1991 Public Wks. Nov. 65/2 The Los Angeles sludge plan has yielded monetary benefits to the city. Compounds monetary aggregate n. Economics (a measure of) the amount of money in circulation within a country or a specified economic sector; cf. money supply n. at money n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > of a sovereign or state exchequer1565 fiscal1590 fisc1599 finances1656 the public purse1659 public finance1676 Consolidated Fund1753 federal fund1836 money supply1871 treasury-chest1877 Federal Reserve1913 Fed1942 monetary aggregate1946 1946 Amer. Econ. Rev. 36 3 Analysis of the economic phenomena of any given period must proceed from the economic facts that produce them and not from the monetary aggregates that result from them. 1958 Econometrica 26 83 Predictions based upon the monetary aggregate of gross national product inevitably overstate the degree of production substitutability within an economy. 1997 Economist 25 Jan. 108/1 Germany's Bundesbank keeps its eye on various measures of the money supply—known as monetary aggregates—and it wants the European central bank to work in a similar way. monetary compensation amount n. Economics (now historical) = monetary compensatory amount n. ΚΠ 1973 Times 26 July 10/5 Is it due to the fact that the whole system of monetary compensation amounts, which he has been so keen to praise.., has blown back and misfired? 1992 Independent 29 Dec. 17/6 Another obscure beast that will die on 1 January is the Monetary Compensation Amount, a levy charged or refund paid when agricultural products cross borders. monetary compensatory amount n. Economics (now historical) a subsidy or tax formerly used to compensate for the gap between the fluctuating general exchange rate and the fixed exchange rates used in agricultural trade between countries of the European Community (cf. green pound n. at green adj. and n.1 Compounds 1d(a)); abbreviated MCA. ΚΠ 1973 Times 25 Jan. 4/7 Sterling will be provisionally fixed at a devaluation parity rate of 9.2 per cent against the dollar. This figure..will simplify the work of agricultural authorities in calculating monetary compensatory amounts. 1992 Jrnl. Econ. Perspectives 6 9 Types of trade barriers..targeted for elimination... Fiscal barriers, such as taxes and subsidies on agricultural trade (known under the euphemism Monetary Compensatory Amounts). monetary overhang n. an excess of currency in circulation, esp. during a period of economic transition; cf. overhang n. 2b. ΚΠ 1948 Polit. Sci. Q. 63 119 It [sc. concentration of wealth in post-war Austria] greatly simplified any attempt to remove the newly created monetary overhang. 1996 Jrnl. Econ. Perspectives 10 51 Part of the recorded inflation during the year in which prices were freed was accounted by one-time price jumps that eliminated the monetary overhang from previous years. monetary union n. (also (with preceding adjective, denoting the region of union) Monetary Union) fiscal harmonization between several nations or states, chiefly in conjunction with the adoption of a single currency; (esp. in later use) spec. European monetary union. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions protection1719 co-operation1817 tariff-reform1859 monetary union1866 border protection1875 rationalization1875 tariffication1892 tariffade1904 inflationism1919 NEP1923 war communism1928 voodoo economics1930 substantivism1931 sterilization1938 deficit spending1941 deficit financing1943 tax-and-spend1956 indexation1960 stop-go1964 incomes policy1965 scala mobile1965 quantitative easing1966 jawboning1969 Nixonomics1969 developmentalism1970 degrowth1971 inflation-proofing1973 NEB1973 dollarization1982 fiscal engineering1982 Rogernomics1985 1866 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 388 The principle of establishing a legal and official system of monetary union upon mutual concessions in the currency of four countries in which the metallic circulation had previously been imperfectly assimilated. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 907/2 Like Belgium, Switzerland had before her adhesion to the Latin Monetary Union adopted the French system, with the franc of 100 centimes or rappen as the unit of value. 1992 Numismatist Mar. 385/2 The book illustrates successful and less successful cases of monetary union—and of coinages that have united the regions and societies of Europe, including those of ancient Greece, the Celts, the Roman Empire and the Carolingian Empire. 1997 Sunday Times 26 Oct. i. 1/3 Peter Lilley, the shadow chancellor, will tomorrow table 18 Commons questions on the government's handling of its policy towards monetary union. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1663 |
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