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monetize, v.|ˈmɒn-, ˈmʌnɪtaɪz|
[f. L. monēt-a money + -ize. Cf. F. monétiser.]
trans. To give a standard value to (a metal) in the coinage of a country; to put into circulation as money.
1880in Webster, Suppl. 1903Speaker 10 Oct. 52/1 He demonetised silver in Germany and monetised gold.
Add:b. To assess in terms of money; to convert into money; spec. to convert (government debt) from securities into currency through the issue of treasury bills.
1947Federal Reserve Bull. XXXIII. 40 This would mean a resumption of the practice of creating bank reserves through monetizing the debt. 1965McGraw-Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 327 The debt can also be monetized to create a greater amount of credit in the economy by using the newly created bank reserves to support additional demand deposits. 1968E. Russenholt Heart of Continent iv. xiii. 247 The immediate loss to Western farm families is monetized at $243 millions. 1975J. De Bres tr. Mandel's Late Capitalism xi. 375 Increasing dependence on imperialist food exports is monetized on the capitalist world market via higher prices, if necessary by artificially induced shortages. 1988Amer. Banker 10 Aug. 24/1 The practice known as monetizing the debt, whereby the Fed buys new securities issued by the Treasury to finance the budget deficit. 1991South Aug. 33/2 Food is certain to become more expensive as the government..begins to liberalise farm prices and monetise the ‘lojas da povo’ where essential items have traditionally been sold..at one seventieth the price they fetch in the open markets.
Hence ˈmonetized ppl. a., (a) Comm., converted into money; (b) converted to trading based on the exchange of money (as opposed to barter).
1965McGraw Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 327 The debt becomes monetized when new securities issued by the government are purchased by the banking system to expand reserves. 1982Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Mar. 327/4 Planners in Java plan, intentionally or otherwise, for the Westernized, monetized, segments of society. 1984Oxf. Ill. Hist. Britain iii. 160 In more rapidly developing and more highly monetized regions, people used a much debased coinage to perform the economic function of small change. 1992R. M. Bone Geogr. Canad. North iii. ix. 212 The monetized informal economy is divided into legal activities and illegal ones (the underground economy). |