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Bimetallism n. The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; in opposition to monometallism. Note: The words bimétallisme and monométallisme are due to M. Cernuschi (1869).

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bimetallism" Quotes from Famous Books

... McKinley was nominated at St. Louis upon a platform which declared for the maintenance of the gold standard until it can be changed into bimetallism by international agreement. Mr. McKinley was the most popular man among the Republicans, and three months ago everybody in the Republican party prophesied his election. How is it today? Why, the man ...

— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

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... had not yet subsided. Bimetallism had strong advocates and believers in our convention. I think even our candidate was not fully convinced at that time of the wisdom of the declaration. It went into the platform rather as a venture than an article ...

— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew

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... bimetallism will have early and earnest attention. It will be my constant endeavor to secure it by co-operation with the other great commercial powers of the world. Until that condition is realized when the parity between our gold and silver money springs from and is supported by the relative ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

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... and Taxation, Money and Bimetallism, Economic Theory. VOL. II. Statistics, National Growth, ...

— The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens • Georg Jellinek

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... said that a question would shortly be put to the Minister of the Annexation Department in the House of Commons. Now, I know that there is nothing my father enjoys more than snubbing those detestable men who endeavor to get up a reputation for philanthropy, and temperance, and bimetallism, and other virtues, by putting questions on the paper; and he could, I think, ask some counter question in this particular case that ...

— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore

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Words linked to "Bimetallism" : standard, bimetallistic, bimetallist, monetary standard