yellow metal

noun

1. a type of brass having about 60 per cent copper and 40 per cent zinc

2. another name for gold

Example Sentences

“As such, we expect the price of the yellow metal denominated in all fiat currencies to continue rising after working itself through the recent froth.”

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The lower the yellow metal’s price is, the less revenue Newmont and its peers can make from mining it.

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The yellow metal plummeted 5.7% on Tuesday, its largest drop in more than 12 years.

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The yellow metal is having its third breakout in the past 50 years, and the last two times proved an expensive bust.

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They aren’t yet as pricey as a bar of the yellow metal they mine.

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