specie
/ˈspiːʃiː
/ /ˈspiːʃi/noun [mass noun]
Money in the form of coins rather than notes: the Bank of England in 1795 had held around £8 million in specie...
- The greenbacks were legal tender notes issued at par with notes backed by specie.
- It was the habit of using paper money that was driving the nation's specie abroad.
- The money supply was composed of bank notes and deposits, convertible into specie, and gold and silver coin.
Phrases
in specie
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin, ablative of species 'form, kind', in the phrase in specie 'in the actual form'.
- to (the best of) someone's knowledge
- to the bitter end
- to the bone
- to the contrary
- to the core
- to the day
- to the death
- to the effect that
- to the exclusion of
- to the finish
- to the fore
- to the full
- to the gills
- to the gunwales
- to the letter
- to the life
- to the marrow
- to the nearest ——
- to the nth degree
- to the point
- to the purpose
- t'other
- tother
- tothersider
- to the skies