gold basis
Americannoun
noun
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The question at issue was whether to set up the now virtually stabilized paper franc on a gold basis.
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Anxiously Madrid foresaw that Portugal, by letting her escudo slide with sterling, will be able to offer drink, etc. to thirsty Britons cheaper than Spain, whose peseta is semi-stabilized on a gold basis.
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In Colombia, harassed President Olaya Herrera decided that his country's burdens are too great to bear on a gold basis.
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The question of whether or no Britain is to replace sterling on a gold basis has drawn businessmen, bankers, economists and others into a keen controversy.
From Time Magazine Archive
No community or section of country has ever yet reached a permanent success, according to the usually accepted idea of success, upon what may in this connection be denominated a gold basis.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
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