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denominate

[dih-nom-uh-neyt] / dɪˈnɒm əˌneɪt /


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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

Ah, but normally these states denominate their bonds in their own currency as well, giving them the option of currency devaluation.

From Economist May 24, 2012

In another minute, Mowle entered the room with another man, holding by the arm the boy Ray, whom the smugglers had chosen to denominate Little Starlight.

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

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

What affects and denominates a substance extrinsically does so either as a cause, or as a measure, or otherwise.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

And a further fact was revealed that man could not have found out for himself; viz. that this creation was made and finished in six Divine actings, comprised in what the narrative denominates "days."

From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder

What Plato calls the spiritual soul, St. John denominates the "Word."

From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison

In accordance with this Principle, Comte establishes what he denominates the Hierarchy of the Sciences.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Lastly, Gavekal highlights that the value of financial assets denominated in dollars is growing as it issues a lot of debt while U.S corporates, especially AI companies, are selling huge amounts of debt and equity.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

About half of China’s cross-border transactions are now denominated in its own currency, compared with almost nothing 15 years ago, according to Chinese central bank data.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 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

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

Sympathies might be denominated a moral contagion in mankind: in the brute creation they merely produce a physical impulse.

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

French historians have censured Washington for the death of Jumonville, denominating the attack upon his small party "assassination."

From From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer




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