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
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
A solar eclipse, at the time of the full moon, or a dead man walking two leagues, and carrying his head in his arms, we denominate a miracle.
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
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
Maskelyne denominates as siderites those meteorites which consist chiefly of iron.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
The second of these aspects subdivides into what Kant denominates, 1.
From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Judge Nelson: It denominates as a pirate a person guilty of robbery on the high seas.
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton
What Plato calls the spiritual soul, St. John denominates the "Word."
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison
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
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 funds will be denominated in Chinese yuan, they said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Alphabet also issued $11.5 billion of bonds denominated in British pounds and Swiss francs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
The public officers of the king volunteered their services to rescue his royal highness from public odium by denominating the proceeding as a conspiracy!
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
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