BIMETALLISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bimetallism mean? 

• BIMETALLISM (noun)
  The noun BIMETALLISM has 1 sense:

1. a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by stated amounts of two metals (usually gold and silver) with values set at a predetermined ratio

  Familiarity information: BIMETALLISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIMETALLISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by stated amounts of two metals (usually gold and silver) with values set at a predetermined ratio

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("bimetallism" is a kind of...):

monetary standard; standard (the value behind the money in a monetary system)

Derivation:

bimetallist (an advocate of bimetallism)

bimetallistic (pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals)

 Context examples 

I am convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his company, and very especially to hear his views upon bimetallism, a subject upon which he was by way of being an authority.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)