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n. - Ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country.

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  • West, coupled with the demonetisation of silver, brought down prices with a run.
  • He now ventures to suggest that the present demonetisation of gold may well he availed of for the purpose of taking one considerable step towards these great ends.
  • The dollarisation of the economy and the resulting demonetisation of the Zimbabwean dollar impacted negatively on banking institutions as Zimbabwe dollar deposits were...
  • More than one million people rose up on August 8 that year to protest an entrenched military-backed regime headed by General Ne Win that had wiped out the savings of many with...
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