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monetary

UK/ˈmʌnɪtəɹi/US/ˈmɑnɪˌtɛɹi/
adjectiveB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #8,254 of 15,258leans written

Monetary means to do with money and its supply. Monetary policy, monetary value, a monetary union.

In economics it is a technical word for everything a central bank controls, as against fiscal, which is what a government taxes and spends. Of a thing, its monetary value is what it would fetch rather than what it means to you.

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Definitions of monetary

  1. 1adjectivemonetaryTo do with money and its supply.B2+

    “Monetary policy was tightened three times in a single year.”

monetary is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin monetarius comes from moneta, a mint, from the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome where coins were struck.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *men- (think)

  2. Latin

    monētārius — pertaining to money

  3. Middle French

    monétaire

  4. English, today

    monetary

Built from

  • monēta · Latin — mint, coinage
  • Iunonis Monetae · Latin — Temple of Juno Moneta

From Middle French monétaire, from Latin monētārius (“pertaining to money”), from Latin monētārius (“of a mint”), from monēta (“mint, coinage”), from the presencefrom 273 BC to AD 84of the chief Roman mint at the templum Iunonis Monetae (“Temple of Juno Moneta”), q.v. a doublet of minter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

monetary in the wild

  • A central bank, reserve bank, national bank, state bank, or monetary authority is a financial institution that manages the monetary policy of a country or monetary union.

    Central bank

  • In contrast to a commercial bank, a central bank possesses a monopoly on increasing the monetary base.

    Central bank

  • In common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury.

    Damages

  • A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is defined by a fixed quantity of gold.

    Gold standard

  • As Great Britain became the world's leading financial and commercial power in the 19th century, other states increasingly adopted Britain's monetary system.

    Gold standard

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the monēta family

mintmonetary

monetary — used about once every 3,257 pages · #8,254 · point at the bar for the others