Definition of British monetary unit

1. Noun. Monetary unit in Great Britain.


Lexicographical Neighbors of British Monetary Unit

British Shorthairs
British Sign Language
British Somaliland
British Summer Time
British Thermal Unit
British Virgin Islander
British Virgin Islands
British West Indies
British anti-Lewisite
British bulldog
British capacity unit
British capital
British empiricism
British gum
British invasion
British monetary unit
British overseas territory
British people
British pound
British racing green
British racing greens
British shilling
British spelling
British spellings
British system
British thermal unit
British thermal units
Britisher
Britishers
Britishification

Literary usage of British monetary unit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Foreign Exchange: Theory and Practice by Thomas York (1920)
"The law defining the british monetary unit, the pound sterling, provides that one troy ounce, eleven-twelfths fine, shall be coined into £3, 17 shillings, ..."

2. The Financial Organization of Society by Harold Glenn Moulton (1921)
"The gold in the british monetary unit, the pound sterling, is worth 4.866 times as much as the gold in the American monetary unit, the dollar. ..."

3. America and the Balance Sheet of Europe by John Foster Bass, Harold Glenn Moulton (1921)
"The british monetary unit, the gold pound sterling, has 4.866 times as much gold as the American monetary unit, the dollar. To cite other exchanges, ..."

4. Foreign Exchange by Albert Conser Whitaker (1919)
"Likewise exchange drawn on and payable in England is called sterling exchange, or again merely sterling. The british monetary unit, the pound sterling, ..."

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