Usage examples (37)

• This gain, called seigniorage, is an implicit tax on the people's cash balances.
• (Extracting profits from the manufacturing of money is called seigniorage, after seigneur -- "lord" in French.)
• Dollarized Latins would lose control over their own interest rates and be hit with hefty bills known as seigniorage, a kind of fee countries pay for using someone else's...
• However in September 1988, amidst excessive printing of the currency by the government to fund expenditures (a practice known as seigniorage) monthly inflation soared to...