| 单词 | basket of currencies |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbasket of currencies f. figurative. A group, category; a range. spec. in Economics, an agreed range of currencies, goods, etc., whose combined values can be used as a basis for calculating an average or comparative value; esp. in basket of currencies. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class kinc950 kindOE distinction?c1225 rowc1300 spece1303 spice1303 fashionc1325 espicec1386 differencea1398 statec1450 sort?1523 notion1531 species1561 vein1568 brood1581 rank1585 order1588 race1590 breed1598 strain1612 batch1616 tap1623 siege1630 subdivision1646 notionality1651 category1660 denomination1664 footmark1666 genus1666 world1685 sortment1718 tribe1731 assortment1767 description1776 style1794 grouping1799 classification1803 subcategory1842 type1854 basket1916 society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] > relative value of coins or metals ratea1513 ration1653 ratio1771 rating1841 parity1895 basket of currencies1973 1916 H. Walpole Dark Forest ii. i. 211 Semyonov at this time flung Nikitin, Andrew Vasslievitch, Trenchard and myself into one basket. We were all ‘crazy romantics’. 1959 Times 9 Mar. (Suppl. Britain's Food) p. i/4 The types of goods on sale are continually changing: so also is the way in which housewives choose to spend their money on this changing basket of available commodities. 1962 Economist 26 May 799/1 Might various categories of exports be grouped in comparable ‘baskets’. 1973 Times 31 July 17/7 An agreed ‘basket’ of goods which will enable the purchasing powers of the various currencies..to be..compared. 1974 Times 19 Jan. 17/3 The Group of 20 agreed that for an interim period, the base of valuation for special drawing rights should be a ‘basket’ of currencies. 1974 Bank of England Q. Bull. Sept. 282 The value of the SDR was based upon the value of a group of major currencies in specified proportions. This came to be referred to as the ‘standard basket’. 1977 J. Paxton Dict. European Econ. Community 269 The E.U.A. is a composite basket of fixed amounts of currencies of the nine member states... To establish the value of the composite basket in any given currency..the going market exchange rates are used. 1978 Times 6 Oct. 25/8 The Belgian compromise..incorporates a weighted basket of currencies which could be used to determine if any of the currencies in the system are deviating from the norm. 1985 Observer 27 Jan. 19/4 One possible solution..is to change OPEC's reference point from the marker crude to a weighted average price reflecting a basket of different qualities. < as lemmas |
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