monetary
adjective /ˈmʌnɪtri/
/ˈmɑːnɪteri/
[only before noun]- connected with money, especially all the money in a country
- monetary policy/growth
- an item of little monetary value
- closer European political, monetary and economic union
Synonyms economiceconomic- financial
- commercial
- monetary
- budgetary
- economic connected with the trade, industry and development of wealth of a country, an area or a society:
- This book deals with the social, economic and political issues of the period.
- financial connected with money and finance:
- She had got into financial difficulties.
- Tokyo is a major financial centre.
- commercial connected with the buying and selling of goods and services.
- monetary (formal or finance) connected with money, especially all the money in a country:
- closer European monetary union
- budgetary (finance) connected with a budget (= the money available or a plan of how it will be spent).
- economic/financial/commercial/monetary/budgetary affairs/decisions
- the economic/financial/commercial/budgetary climate
- the economic/financial/commercial side of something
- a(n) economic/financial/commercial centre
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMonetary is used with these nouns:- compensation
- discipline
- donation
- …
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French monétaire or late Latin monetarius, from Latin moneta ‘money’.