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paper money
noun
- currency in paper form, such as government and bank notes, as distinguished from metal currency.
paper money
noun
- paper currency issued by the government or the central bank as legal tender and which circulates as a substitute for specie
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Word History and Origins
Origin of paper money1
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Example Sentences
Central banks like the US Federal Reserve are printing more paper money than ever.
As society accelerates into its digital future, the UK is taking steps to protect the centuries-old technology known as paper money.
She recounts that, as a currency, cowries “have circulated longer than any other single coin or paper money in history.”
With fewer people carrying paper money, and with some places no longer accepting it, we’ve become ever more reliant on electronic cash provided by commercial institutions, from PayPal to Visa.
Last year’s economics prize notably went to a team that tested to see which country’s paper money transmitted the most harmful bacteria.
Just a gradual, bearable, steady impoverishment in a world where savings linked to the value of paper money languish.
If so, why do the rest of us have to put up with legal-tender paper money?
Also, coins did not conveniently slide into the “vault” (Bunny-speak for bodice) the way paper money did.
The Treasury Department could sell the licensing rights to all our paper money.
At present this medium is paper money depreciated, as in the case of the Reichsbank notes, by nearly 30 per cent.
The issue of government paper money is, indeed, a new departure; but its purpose has been more distinctly monetary than fiscal.
The day of reckoning, Mr. Mac Quedy, is the point which your paper-money science always leaves out of view.
Coins should be boiled, and paper money should be dipped in the 10 per centum carbolic acid solution and dried at a stove.
I found many people who were going without their next meal because they could not get their paper money changed.
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