monometallistn.adj.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˈmɛtl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˈmɛdələst/ Now chiefly historical.
A. n.
A person who advocates or favours monometallism, or a standard of currency based upon only one metal.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > currency systems and policies > supporters of
bullionist1828
monometallist1876
bimetallist1879
silverist1879
silverite1886
symmetallist1897
1876 N. Amer. Rev. 126 163 The mono-metalists denounce it for demonetizing the best of the two metals.
1885 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 448/2 Monometallists and bimetallists, business men and bankers, are assaulting the dangerous silver legislation.
1900 Congress. Rec. 4 Jan. 652/2 The Democratic advocates of free coinage are not in any sense bimetallists, but silver monometallists of the most pronounced type.
1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 922/1 In one day he interviewed seven of the leading French economic authorities, monometallists and bimetallists, and his remarkable memory enabled him to write their statements without having taken a single note.
1998 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Aug. 3 Great bimetallist rallies were staged, some disrupted by monometallists.
B. adj.
Favouring or implementing monometallism.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [adjective] > types of currency system
bimetallic1876
monometallic1877
silver1879
monometallist1886
trimetallic1887
bimetallistic1889
symmetallic1895
off-gold1935
single currency1952
1886 Contemp. Rev. May 622 The ever-growing scarcity of gold..was remarked..also by the monometallist Economist.
1974 B. Pearce tr. S. Amin Accumulation on World Scale II. iii. 471 The advanced countries that were silver-monometallist or bimetallist also suffered.
1998 Econ. Q. (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) 84 66 He spared his monometallist targets no more mercy than he had spared Tooke.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1876