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gold point

noun

  1. the point at which it is equally expensive to buy, sell, export, import, or exchange gold in adjustment of foreign claims or counterclaims.
  2. the melting point of gold, equal to 1036°C and used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.


gold point

noun

  1. finance either of two exchange rates (the gold export point and the gold import point ) at which it is as cheap to settle international accounts by exporting or importing gold bullion as by selling or buying bills of exchange Also calledspecie point
“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 gold point1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

Added another: “It took me about a year of hearing ‘ya gotta go to Gold Point’ before I actually went.

He arrived in Gold Point in 1973, when there weren’t many more folks around than there are now.

He soon joined up with his brother, Chuck Kremin, and house painter Herb Robbins, to start buying buildings around the old silver-mining town, which was originally settled in the 1880s and first called Lime Point and then Horn Silver before folks settled on Gold Point.

As Antinous turned to face him, Jason thrust the Imperial gold point through the ghoul’s chest.

His sadness, his wandering and mysterious life, his authority of voice and bearing, that fatal gift of his for turning everything he touches into gold, point to some symbolical intention in the author’s mind, and to a third subject.

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