paper money

noun

1. currency in paper form, such as government and bank notes, as distinguished from metal currency.

paper money

noun

1. paper currency issued by the government or the central bank as legal tender and which circulates as a substitute for specie

Word History and Origins

Origin of paper money¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

Just a gradual, bearable, steady impoverishment in a world where savings linked to the value of paper money languish.

From The Daily Beast

If so, why do the rest of us have to put up with legal-tender paper money?

From The Daily Beast

Also, coins did not conveniently slide into the “vault” (Bunny-speak for bodice) the way paper money did.

From The Daily Beast

The Treasury Department could sell the licensing rights to all our paper money.

From The Daily Beast

At present this medium is paper money depreciated, as in the case of the Reichsbank notes, by nearly 30 per cent.

From Project Gutenberg

The issue of government paper money is, indeed, a new departure; but its purpose has been more distinctly monetary than fiscal.

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The day of reckoning, Mr. Mac Quedy, is the point which your paper-money science always leaves out of view.

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Coins should be boiled, and paper money should be dipped in the 10 per centum carbolic acid solution and dried at a stove.

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I found many people who were going without their next meal because they could not get their paper money changed.

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