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velocity of money

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noun

Economics.
  1. the frequency with which a single unit of currency or the total money supply turns over within the economy in a given year.


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Not equal job growth, but larger velocity of money as well.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2017

The notion of the velocity of money is sometimes forgotten...

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2016

There would be some jobs, the wages of these jobs would be spent here rather than there thus increasing the velocity of money.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2016

My reasoning was that we were in a deleveraging world where the velocity of money was clearly falling.

From Forbes • Oct. 21, 2014

Again, this undue weighting of country clearings, swallowing up New York, vitiates Professor Fisher's estimates for V, the velocity of money, for years other than 1909 and 1896.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

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