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View synonyms for circulating medium

circulating medium

noun

  1. any coin or note passing, without endorsement, as a medium of exchange.
  2. such coins or notes collectively.


circulating medium

noun

  1. finance currency serving as a medium of exchange
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of circulating medium1

First recorded in 1790–1800
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Example Sentences

The "circulating medium."—What was the "currency" of the Indians in early times?—Compose a sentence using this word.

The electoral mandate stiffened Jackson’s resolve to kill the “monster” in whose control over “the circulating medium” resided the “power to increase or diminish the price of property and to levy taxes on the people in the shape of premiums and interest.”

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This would regulate the currency by furnishing a circulating medium, and constitute a basis on which loans could be obtained.

It was this picture that gave occasion for one of John Van Buren's noted sayings that were once a circulating medium in the lawyers' offices of New York.

This adoption of the precious metals as the subject of coinage,—the material of money by all peoples in all ages of the world,—has not been the result of any vagaries of fancy, but is attributable to the fact that they of all metals alone possess the properties which are essential to a circulating medium of uniform value.

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