European Monetary System

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noun

a Common Market program designed to narrow the fluctuation of western European currencies against one another. Abbreviation: EMS

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The reformers of the earlier period were not indifferent to the need for centralized organization in the banking system.
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British Dictionary definitions for European Monetary System

European Monetary System

noun

the system used in the European Union for stabilizing exchange rates between the currencies of member states and financing the balance-of-payments support mechanism. The original Exchange Rate Mechanism was formed in 1979 but superseded in 1999 when the euro was adopted as official currency of 11 EU member states. A new exchange rate mechanism (ERM II) based on the euro is used to regulate the currencies of participating states that have not adopted the euroAbbreviation: EMS

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