International Monetary Fund

noun

1. an international organization that promotes the stabilization of the world's currencies and maintains a monetary pool from which member nations can draw in order to correct a deficit in their balance of payments: a specialized agency of the United Nations. IMF, I.M.F.

International Monetary Fund

noun

1. IMF. an international financial institution organized in 1945 to promote international trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies. A fund is maintained out of which member nations with temporary balance-of-payments deficits may make withdrawals

International Monetary Fund

1. An agency, dominated by wealthy nations, that lends money to developing nations.

Example Sentences

Only about one-third of Madagascar's 30 million people have access to electricity, according to the International Monetary Fund.

From BBC

The chancellor confirmed publicly that she agreed with the International Monetary Fund about changing the fiscal dance that has created non-stop speculation about tax changes.

From BBC

Alternatively, he could have kept up the effort to stabilize the peso by spending still more billions of dollars previously borrowed from the International Monetary Fund.

From Salon

The possibility of having to turn, cap in hand, to the International Monetary Fund for a loan or to require intervention from the European Central Bank, is no longer fanciful.

From BBC

The chancellor chose to dismiss the suggestion of a "£50bn black hole", and talk of a need for a visit to the International Monetary Fund to request a bailout.

From BBC