monetary
[mon-i-ter-ee, muhn-]
- of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- of or relating to money; pecuniary: The necklace has sentimental as opposed to monetary value.
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Origin of monetary
Synonyms
See more synonyms for monetary on Thesaurus.com1. See financial.
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Contemporary Examples
Her wealthy family imposed its own monetary and social punishment for stepping outside the sorority.
Other chapels have taken on commitment ceremonies in the last couple years just for the monetary issue.
The Brown family will sue for monetary compensation as hundreds do every year in federal courthouses across the nation.
Anwar looks and sounds like an accountant as he addresses a question no more incendiary than monetary debt, with charts included.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen goes before the Senate Banking Committee to give a semi-annual monetary policy testimony.
Historical Examples
Among these people, there ought to be a good crop of monetary sensations.
To have had to appeal to the girl for monetary help was bad enough.
The Grell MysteryFrank Froest
The monetary explanation of the romance, he found, was the popular one in the village.
Ghetto ComediesIsrael Zangwill
This is one of the most difficult phases of monetary theory.
The Principles of EconomicsFrank A. Fetter
The livre was the old French monetary unit which was displaced by the franc.
monetary
- of or relating to money or currency
- of or relating to monetarisma monetary policy
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Word Origin
C19: from Late Latin monētārius, from Latin monēta money
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Word Origin and History for monetary
adj.
"pertaining to money," 1802, from Late Latin monetarius "pertaining to money," originally "of a mint," from Latin moneta "mint, coinage" (see money). Related: Monetarily.
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