monometallism
Americannoun
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the use of one metal only, as gold or silver, as a monetary standard.
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the doctrine or actions supporting such a standard.
noun
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the use of one metal, esp gold or silver, as the sole standard of value and currency
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the economic policies supporting a monometallic standard
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of monometallism
First recorded in 1875–80; mono- + (bi)metallism
Example Sentences
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Her statesmen believed the geologists rather than the panic-stricken financiers, and so she held for gold monometallism.
From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter
Another class who may have disapproved of both gold monometallism and protection, but who regarded expansion as the all-important question, supported the Republican party because of its attitude in this matter.
From The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith
She paid it with a rapidity that amazed the world, but in her hour of weakness she consented to gold monometallism.
From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter
As one whose prosperity depends almost entirely upon that of the farmers, I have naturally thought most of the effect monometallism has had, and will continue to have, upon them.
From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter
Let us turn for a moment and trace the effects of monometallism in England as compared with bimetallism in France during the same period.
From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter
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