remonetization love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of remonetizing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of remonetizing.

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  • noun economics The act or process of remonetizing, or restoring to the status of legal tender.

Etymologies

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remonetize +‎ -ation or re- +‎ monetization

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Examples

  • He was a solid gold Democrat, who stood for the gold standard, as opposed to the populist types, like William Jennings Bryan, who advocated the remonetization of silver at an inflationary rate.

    The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s 1996

  • As many of the countries furnish no bullion to the common stock, the surplus production of our mines and mints might thus be utilized and a step taken toward the general remonetization of silver.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • September, but sales were substantially suspended after that date, until it became manifest that the two Houses could not agree upon the repeal of the resumption act, or the remonetization of silver.

    Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

  • The called session of Congress, which met on the 15th of October, and the agitation of the repeal of the resumption act and the remonetization of silver, prevented for the time any further sales of the four per cent. bonds by the government.

    Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

  • How glib would have been the tongues of their orators in denouncing all who advocated the remonetization of gold as cranks, socialists, populists, anarchists, ne'er-do-wells, and

    If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

  • States whose prosperity depended largely on the silver mining industry demanded the remonetization of this metal.

    The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics 1923

  • He may be one who hopes to raise the wage rate by means of a tariff wall, or expects John Bull to assist Uncle Sam in the remonetization of silver.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • It was sent abroad at great outlay of boodle to ascertain what is perfectly well-known to every man outside the insane asylum, viz.: that England, being a creditor nation, would not consent to the remonetization of silver.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • Secretary of the Treasury and confidential friend, John Sherman, he vetoed the act of 1878 for the remonetization of silver by the coinage of a certain amount of silver dollars -- the first of those measures which almost brought us to the monetary basis of silver.

    Historical Essays James Ford Rhodes 1887

  • In their way of meeting the insistent demand for the remonetization of silver Hayes and Sherman differed.

    Historical Essays James Ford Rhodes 1887

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