demonetization

American  

[dee-mahn-i-tahyz-ay-shuhn] / diˌmɑn ɪ taɪzˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act of demonetizing a monetary standard, coin, or bill.

2. the act of demonetizing online content or products.

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Example Sentences

Even if X's demonetization policy were strictly enforced, a vast number of X users peddling AI content are not part of the revenue sharing program, researchers say.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

Older Myanmar residents are especially sensitive to changes affecting the currency, recalling the sudden demonetization of banknotes in 1987 during an earlier dictatorship, which reportedly affected around 80% of the money in circulation.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2023

But the way demonetization — withdrawing notes from circulation — has been carried out has left Nigerians struggling to pay for food and supplies.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2023

Even casual YouTube viewers eventually become familiar with growth-related jargon: C.P.M., copyright strikes, view velocity, demonetization.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2022

Instead, therefore, of our demonetization unjustly enriching our creditor-classes at the expense of foreigners, it enabled the creditors at home here to rob and despoil the debtors among their own countrymen.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)