debasement of coinage
noun[U]
ukusECONOMICS
areductionin thevalueofcoinswhich is made byreducingtheamountofpuremetalsuch asgoldorsilvertheycontain, done in the past so that morecoinscould beproduced
| 单词 | debasement of coinage |
| 释义 | debasement of coinage noun[U] ukusECONOMICS areductionin thevalueofcoinswhich is made byreducingtheamountofpuremetalsuch asgoldorsilvertheycontain, done in the past so that morecoinscould beproduced Examplesofdebasement of coinagedebasement of coinage A simpler possible explanation for thedebasementofcoinageis that it allowed the state to spend more than it had. From Wikipedia He therefore soon reverted to the old and worse measures, including thedebasementofcoinage, and put an extreme tension on all the springs of the financial system. FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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