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Examples of monetary unit in a Sentence
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To encourage the moral character of New Atlantans, Leicester introduced a monetary unit called the scruple.
—Fred Nadis, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
Under a genuine gold standard, a monetary unit is defined as a specific quantity of gold.
—William J. Luther and Alexander William Salter, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2021
Olmec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec—that found ways to exploit the bean, which was variously used as a monetary unit, a measuring unit and a meal.
—Franz Lidz, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
Rather than paying retailers directly with the digital money, Coinbase charges users a fee to convert other monetary units into a digital currency.
—SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2019
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First Known Use
1810, in the meaning defined above
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“Monetary unit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monetary%20unit. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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