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Definition of Demonetizing
1. demonetize [v] - See also: demonetize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demonetizing
Literary usage of Demonetizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Financial Economy of the United States Illustrated by John Alexander Ferris (1867)
"THE EFFECT OF demonetizing GOLD UPON ITS DOMESTIC VALUE. In a. former paper I
have shown that the American tariff takes from gold one-third its value for ..."
2. Money Found: Recovered from Its Hiding-places, and Put Into Circulation by Thomas Edie Hill (1893)
"demonetizing. The act of changing a value by restricting the coinage, use and
circulation of a certain metal. Thus silver bullion, in consequence of ..."
3. A Popular Treatise on the Currency Question Written from a Southern Point of by Robert William Hughes (1879)
"In 1873, the United States also adopted a system of law on coins in which was
embodied a provision demonetizing the silver dollar, ..."
4. Democratic Campaign Book by Democratic Party (U.S.) National committee, 1896-1900, Benton McMillin, Democratic congressional committee (1896)
"The Motive for demonetizing Silver. The motive for the demonetization of silver
was precisely the same that had previously inspired the demonetization of ..."
5. History of the United States by Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1894)
"In 1873 a law was passed silently demonetizing it, and making gold the exclusive
form of United States hard money. The new German Empire did the same this ..."
6. Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir by Thurlow Weed, Harriet A. Weed, Thurlow Weed Barnes (1884)
"The act of 1873, demonetizing silver, renders it impossible to resume without
greatly increasing the burdens, losses, and sufferings of the commercial, ..."
7. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1879)
"I submit that the act forcing resumption ol specie payments in 1879, by contracting
the circulation of legal-tender notes, and the act ot 1873, demonetizing ..."
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