| 单词 | commodity currency |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommodity currency commodity currency n. (a) a currency consisting of a particular commodity; (b) a currency belonging to a country whose economy depends on the export of one or more commodities; cf. commodity dollar n. 3. ΚΠ 1878 D. A. Wells Why we trade & how we Trade 17 No commodity currency (gold, silver, copper, iron, or cabbages) of one kind can be relatively cheaper than one of another kind. 1940 R. V. Coleman & J. T. Adams Dict. Amer. Hist. (rev. ed.) I. 437 By 1700 the use of commodity currencies was giving way to coin payments in the towns and cities. 1987 Austral. Financial Rev. 6 Nov. 1 The $A is a commodity currency, which closely tracks Australia's terms of trade. 2000 A. Kuroda in H. Kawakatsu & A. J. H. Latham Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550–2000 ix. 191 Lacking legal tender, many regions used commodity currencies, such as rice, cloth, and so on. 2012 B. Twomey Inside Currency Market i. 14 Of the seven major widely traded currencies, three are considered commodity currencies, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. < as lemmas |
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