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unit of account
noun
- economics the function of money that enables the user to keep accounts, value transactions, etc
- Also called (esp US and Canadian)money of account a monetary denomination used for accounting purposes, etc, but not necessarily corresponding to any real currency
the ECU is the unit of account of the European Monetary Fund
- the unit of currency of a country
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