Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A worker in metals, or one skilled in the knowledge of metals.
- noun An advocate of the use of metal (silver or gold) as currency. Compare bimetallist, monometallist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A worker in metals, or one skilled in metals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun metallurgy a person who works with
metals - noun economics an advocate of metal coinage as the principal or sole currency
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Examples
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Kiidaks võõra tsivilisatsiooni robotit, aga eelkõige kiidaks siiski seda kõikehävitavat metallist tirtsude parve.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) Ulmeguru 2009
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"I would like to speak to Chtexa, the metallist," Ruiz said.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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"I would like to speak to Chtexa, the metallist," Ruiz said.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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It became necessary to satisfy the rank and file of the party, who were sincerely and honestly for silver, that Colonel Dockery was a bi-metallist.
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One is that he is, at root, a metallist - that, in order to make money as a commodity coherent with the labor theory of value, Marx is forced to mystify gold and silver as the universal types of money.
Limited, Inc. roger 2010
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One is that he is, at root, a metallist - that, in order to make money as a commodity coherent with the labor theory of value, Marx is forced to mystify gold and silver as the universal types of money.
Limited, Inc. roger 2010
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When, during the last decade of the 19th century, the bi-metallist party in Germany gained so much power that the possibility of experiment with its inflationist proposals had to be reckoned with, gold clauses began to make their appearance in long-term contracts.
Mises Dailies 2009
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And besides, the Liberty Dollar company's tri-metallist approach of gold, silver and copper is needlessly confusing and unstable, creating the potential for changing relative values of each coin against one other — exactly the sort of problems that caused the United States to abandon its brief experiment in gold-silver bi-metallism back in the 1890's.) print share
Happy Hour Roundup 2009
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He ends his letter with these sensible words: 'I would refer to any intelligent metallist whether a vast deal of ore must not of necessity be lost here, from which a great deal of gold might be separated, from want of skill in the metallic art; and not only so, but I firmly believe that vast quantities of pure gold are left behind; for the negroes only ignorantly dig at random, without the least knowledge of the veins of the mine.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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