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monetary

monetary

205 4.4
About money, for example payments, costs, or value
  • adjective
  • /ˈmʌnɪˌtɛri/
  • Specialized
translation icon : monetario
  • Efforts to promote a stable international monetary system should take into account the lessons of history.
  • monetary policy
  • fiscal and monetary policy
  • monetary system

It's called Modern Monetary Theory, MMT for short.

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Examples

  • Once people trusted the banks again, the monetary crisis was solved.

  • Talking with people of similar status or monetary success to you.

  • OK, So this is called monetary policy.

  • I doubt it has any monetary value.

  • And this type of monetary policy floods the system with cash.

  • We kept the monetary stimulus going for too long after that.

  • Major changes relate to the monetary amount that farmers receive per animal eligible for subsidy payment.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The European Union asked to settle the dispute with monetary compensation for its non-compliance.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The need to constrain discretion in the conduct of monetary affairs has long been recognized.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The government implemented a new monetary policy to control inflation.

Synonyms

pecuniary
vsmonetary
  • Formal
2 8.7

About money or payments

focuses more on the supply of money within the economy

Compounds

An international organization that lends money and gives advice to countries with financial problems

monetary system
  • Specialized
14 3.7

The way a country supplies and manages money and how people measure its value

How much money something is worth

monetary aggregate
  • Specialized
1 7.0

The total amount of money available to people and businesses in a country, including cash and bank deposits

monetary unit
  • Specialized
1 3.5

A standard kind of money used in a country to measure value, like a dollar or yen

Money that is available to spend or invest

monetary standard
  • Specialized
1 6.1

A system that decides what a country's money is worth

The currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, called the convertible mark

A unit of money that people use in China, like the yuan

Money used in the Netherlands before the euro

Money used in the Falkland Islands that has the same value as the British pound

7.1

A small coin or unit worth one hundredth of the main unit of money

Money set aside for a specific purpose by an organization or government

Money that people use in Guernsey, like the local pound

Irish monetary unit
  • Literature
7.8

Old currency used in Ireland before the euro

8.8

The unit of money used in Italy before the euro

Not involving money, for example gifts or services

Official money used in Saint Helena

Official money of Slovakia before the euro

How Financial

fiscal
438 5.2
monetary
  • Specialized
205 4.4
financial
3.2
nonfinancial
1 4.6

Surface Forms

monetary positive

Morphology

monetary = money (transparent) = money + ary

The adjective is functionally derived from the noun 'money' using the productive suffix '-ary', so the meaning 'relating to money' is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word monetary comes from the Latin word moneta, which meant the 'mint', the place where coins were made, and then the 'money' itself. So monetary means 'relating to money', which is why we talk about monetary policy or a monetary award.