adjective
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of or relating to money or currency
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of or relating to monetarism
a monetary policy
Related Words
See financial.
Other Word Forms
- monetarily adverb
- nonmonetary adjective
- premonetary adjective
- unmonetary adjective
Etymology
Origin of monetary
First recorded in 1660–70; from Late Latin monētārius “pertaining to the mint”; money, -ary
Example Sentences
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The nominee joined the BIS in 2014 and currently serves as economic adviser and head of the monetary and economic department at the Switzerland-based institution, often known as a bank for central banks.
“If you’ve been running monetary policy on the assumption that inflation expectations would naturally bring inflation down, well, it hasn’t,” he said.
The author argues that such markets often outperform traditional polling by incentivizing accuracy through real monetary consequences.
From Los Angeles Times
The upshot for markets is that after initially allowing their currencies to absorb some of the shock, Asian central banks will be forced into tightening monetary policy.
From MarketWatch
It was an early experiment in unorthodox monetary policy that lasted until 1951.
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