circulating medium

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noun

any coin or note passing, without endorsement, as a medium of exchange.
such coins or notes collectively.

Origin of circulating medium

First recorded in 1790–1800

Words Nearby circulating medium

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How to use circulating medium in a sentence

At first, it was thought that some sort of circulating medium must be used, that life could not be transacted without it.
A Traveler from Altruria: Romance | William Dean Howells
The paper of this bank is now the principal circulating medium of this colony.
Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land | William Charles Wentworth
These increased prices and wages have required increased circulating medium.
Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII | Various
But it is also true that money or other circulating medium is unprecedently plentiful.
Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII | Various
We feel that to the policy pursued by them, we are indebted for all the evils we experience for want of a circulating medium.
The Life of John Marshall Volume 4 of 4 | Albert J. Beveridge

British Dictionary definitions for circulating medium

circulating medium

noun

finance currency serving as a medium of exchange

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