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fiat

noun as in order, proclamation

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Although real names aren’t attached, criminals become vulnerable when they try to cash out their crypto into dollars, euros, or another traditional fiat currency.

From Time

So what we did is we allowed consumers to instantaneously translate that cryptocurrency and sell it in into fiat currency to pay for that transaction.

From Time

They have stable value because they are backed by stores of fiat currencies.

From Time

In effect, it is just a digital version of the fiat currency, which in India’s case is the rupee.

From Quartz

Initially, Libra had proposed creating a cryptocurrency supported by a basket of government-issued fiat currencies and securities.

From Fortune

But the recent batch of polls shows Americans to be, what else, deeply split on whether Obama was right to do this by fiat.

The grand prize is a pristine white Fiat Panda 4X4 – with full options.

They can be unmade by judicial fiat, but it feels awfully cruel to do so.

The Senate had, in fact, been in pro forma session when Obama issued his fiat that the body was in recess.

Coinbase and Vault of Satoshi both allow users to purchase Bitcoin with dollars and other fiat currency.

He became the umpire of taste, and his word was received as the fiat of fashion.

When at length comes the conviction that all are doomed, the fiat goes forth to put the suffering creatures out of pain.

And do not let anybody fool you for a single second by talking about "fiat money" and "inflation of the currency."

They had imagined that the Pope would not dare to utter words of defiance against the fiat of an irreligious Bloc.

After a heated debate the fiat went forth that Congress could not take action till 1808.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fiat, such as: authorization, command, decree, dictate, dictum, and edict.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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