bimetallist
noun
a person who advocates bimetallism.
bimetallists
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pluralof bimetallist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This growing supply removed all that dread of a “gold famine” which served as a popular argument with bimetallists.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
The bimetallists, both in England and on the Continent, have labored zealously to engage support among the business men, but never with a degree of success at all proportionate to the energy displayed.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
It was a period when the contest between the advocates of a single gold standard and the bimetallists raged fiercely, and the contest had not been fully settled by the election of McKinley in 1896.
From Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes
I scarcely know why, unless through the apprehension that the bimetallists may utilize the argument.”
From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter
In truth, both the bimetallists and their opponents seem to confuse the question when they speak of the appreciation of gold as causing lower prices.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
