monetary

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈmʌnɪtəɹi/
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/ˈmʌnɪtəɹi/ · [ˈmʌnɪtɹi] · /ˈmɑnɪˌtɛɹi/ · /ˈmʌnəˌtɛɹi/ · /ˈmɐn.ə.teː.ɹi/

Definition of monetary

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, pertaining to, or consisting of money.
    “Although of little monetary value, Rosie treasured her late grandfather's old hunting gear.”
    “So what’s the Fed to do? It must manage interest rates without a working monetary policy compass.”
    “Wondering how else he passed his time, Winifred surveyed the room again, this time without regard for the monetary value of the things she saw. A box of lutestrings. Five songbooks. But no lute.”
    “The song is set in a "red room," a likely fiction, urban legend space of torture and death. Being urban legend, details can differ, but consistent within the mythos of the “red room” is its existence on the “deep web” and crowd involvement—likely with a monetary cost—to decide how the person will be tortured and killed.”

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Etymology

From Middle French monétaire, from Late Latin monētārius (“pertaining to money”), from Latin monētārius (“of a mint”), from monēta (“mint, coinage”), from the presence—from 273 BC to AD 84—of the chief Roman mint at the Templum Iunonis Monetae (“Temple of Juno Moneta”), q.v. Doublet of minter.

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