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noun

a gold standard as a basis for prices.

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In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
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If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.
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And more than anything, I wanted a souvenir for my father, so I rolled him back, and he had gold teeth.
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We see the Southern segregationists who threatened his life and that of his family on an almost daily basis.
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Yet the email references the 1970s, “when police officers were ambushed and executed on a regular basis.”
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When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.
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On his head was the second-hand hat of some parvenu's coachman, gold lace, cockade and all.
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A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.
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M was a Miser, and hoarded up gold; N was a Nobleman, gallant and bold.
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He accuses the latter of various illegal and crafty acts, among them sending contraband gold and jewels to Mexico.
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British Dictionary definitions for gold basis

gold basis

noun

the gold standard as a criterion for the determination of prices

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