Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To restore to use as legal tender.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To restore to circulation in the shape of money; make again a legal or standard money of account, as gold or silver coin. Also spelled
remonetise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To restore to use as money.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
monetize again.
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Examples
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To remonetize silver upon the old standard, and make it a legal tender for all private and public debts, will be considered by the whole civilized world as an act of repudiation on the part of the federal government, and cast a stain upon our national credit, which has hitherto stood as high and bright as that of any government in the world.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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And, fellow cheese-mongers, you are doing yourselves great injustice that you do not petition congress to pass a bill to remonetize cheese.
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And, fellow cheese mongers, you are doing yourselves great injustice that you do not petition congress to pass a bill to remonetize cheese.
Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878
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If we act here with prudence, wisdom, and firmness, we shall not only successfully remonetize silver and bring it into general use as money in our own country, but the influence of our example will be potential among all European nations, with the possible exception of England.
American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1869
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But our line of policy in a joint movement with other nations to remonetize is very simple and very direct.
American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1869
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To remonetize it now as though the facts and circumstances of that day were surrounding us, is to wilfully and blindly deceive ourselves.
American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1869
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I believe then if Germany were to remonetize silver and the kingdoms and states of the Latin Union were to reopen their mints, silver would at once resume its former relation with gold.
American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1869
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-- Three members of the Commission, John P. Jones and Louis V. Bogy of the Senate, and George Willard, a representative from Michigan, believed that the United States should remonetize silver without regard to the future policy of Europe, and that a law should be passed fixing 15½ to 1 as the standard of relative value between silver and gold in this country.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861
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Add to this the movement to remonetize silver though the use of the Mexican Libertad and it’s obvious that demand for a safe haven from paper money is growing.
Silver shortage in the forseeable future. Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2006
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Add to this the movement to remonetize silver though the use of the Mexican Libertad and it’s obvious that demand for a safe haven from paper money is growing.
Archive 2006-10-29 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2006
hernesheir commented on the word remonetize
(v): to put back into use as lawful money; to reinstate, as gold, silver, or other medium of currency or exchange aslawful or as standard money.
January 16, 2009