denominate
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They chose to denominate in dollars precisely because the dollar was already the world’s numeraire.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
He said he and Mr. Raisi had agreed to strengthen cooperation in energy, industry and transportation, and to increasingly use national currencies — rather than the U.S. dollar — to denominate their trade.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
While keeping their own currencies, and central banks, countries would agree to denominate all international payments in a common accounting unit, which Keynes named the bancor, and to clear all international payments through the ICU.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2019
Prices of Ukraine’s dollar denominate bonds were steady on Friday, according to Tradeweb data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2015
For that variety of the Romance tongue which I may denominate Catalan is spoken with local modifications all along the eastern coast of Spain, from the mouth of the Segura to the frontier of Rousillon.
From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert
But despite the fact Concacaf has headquarters and regional offices in the US and the fact it denominates its revenues in US dollars, its auditor is not American.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2011
We have seen, that according to his law of progressive generation, and as an instance of what he denominates "a modest and simple phenomenon," man was one day born of the monkey or the ape.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
It is to the truth of God that those devoted servants, whom he denominates "My Witnesses," give testimony, in their profession, and life, and conversation.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham
He also denominates it 'the wonderful miracle of nature, the prince of all the many rare things that are found in the sea.'
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by William Chambers
The word Djinawa is the African word that denominates Guinea, but I cannot imagine that it was ever intended to signify Gana.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
That might mean selling assets denominated in the U.S. dollar so investors can repay their yen-based loans.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Issuance of international debt denominated in euro reached its highest level since the currency’s inception, the ECB said, and the euro became the leading currency in the green and sustainable international bond market.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
SoftBank said late Saturday that its initial investment, denominated in euros at €45 billion, aims to deliver up to 3.1 gigawatts of computing capacity across France at sites in Dunkirk, Bosquel and Bouchain by 2031.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
The rise in the value of the US dollar may also have had an impact, as the oil price is denominated in dollars and it makes it more expensive for non-US buyers.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
The number of leper-houses, as they were denominated, has been singularly exaggerated.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
This obsession with petrodollars pulls our attention away from something more fundamental: the dollar’s role as the world’s numeraire, the denominating currency against which all or most other prices, contracts, and values are expressed.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
From 1860 to 1924, Congress passed almost 60 statutes denominating the “Duwamish and other allied tribes in Washington,” and appropriated funds to the Duwamish Tribe and other treaty tribes.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022
Keynes wanted the IMF to act as a central bank of central banks, denominating their accounts in a new global currency.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2017
But the role of the U.S. dollar as the world's main reserve currency denominating large chunks of that debt pile is showing up as complicating factor that's added to risk of instability.
From Reuters ● May 11, 2016
People have attempted to formulate a system by denominating the primary colors, red, yellow and blue, respectively as R, Y and B, and the combinations of these colors as combinations of letters.
From Color Value by C. R. (Chandler Robbins) Clifford
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