sterilizationn.

1874 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 164 458 On the sterilization by heat of organic liquids and mixtures.

1885 Ld. Napier & Ettrick in Comm. Housing Working Cl. V. 113/2 The formation of deer forests and sterilization of land in all parts of Scotland.

1900 Nature 1 Mar. 422/1 The thorough sterilisation of the syringe in every case.

1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Aug. 443 Treat every man after the deserts of his grandfathers and who should scape sterilization?

1910 R. R. Rentoul in Brit. Health Rev. Feb. 74 In 1903 I publicly advocated the sterilisation of the insane.

1938 Times 15 Feb. 14/2 ‘Sterilization’ is the word used to describe the Treasury's policy of limiting the expansion of credit which would follow if the imports of gold were used as a basis for the expansion of the note issue or bank credits.

1942 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Jan. 10/2 The fall or ‘sterilization’ of Singapore could contribute to a clearing of the way for Japanese naval debouchment into the Indian Ocean.

1955 Times 3 Aug. 12/2 The Swiss authorities would be the first to admit that the sterilization of deposits..cannot be held to promise a solution of the problem posed by the existence of too much money and lack of sufficient opportunities for investing it.

1968 R. A. Mundell International Econ. xviii. 256 Sterilization (or neutralization) policy is a specific combination of monetary and exchange policy. When the central bank buys or sells foreign exchange the money supply increases or decreases. The purpose of sterilization policy is to offset this effect.

1974 A. K. Swoboda in Johnson & Nobay Issues in Monetary Econ. 66 Keeping the money supply at its initial level involves a lower rate of sterilization operations when non-trade goods are present.