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paper money

noun as in paper currency

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Central banks like the US Federal Reserve are printing more paper money than ever.

From Quartz

As society accelerates into its digital future, the UK is taking steps to protect the centuries-old technology known as paper money.

From Quartz

She recounts that, as a currency, cowries “have circulated longer than any other single coin or paper money in history.”

With fewer people carrying paper money, and with some places no longer accepting it, we’ve become ever more reliant on electronic cash provided by commercial institutions, from PayPal to Visa.

From Quartz

Last year’s economics prize notably went to a team that tested to see which country’s paper money transmitted the most harmful bacteria.

From Ozy

Just a gradual, bearable, steady impoverishment in a world where savings linked to the value of paper money languish.

If so, why do the rest of us have to put up with legal-tender paper money?

Also, coins did not conveniently slide into the “vault” (Bunny-speak for bodice) the way paper money did.

The Treasury Department could sell the licensing rights to all our paper money.

At present this medium is paper money depreciated, as in the case of the Reichsbank notes, by nearly 30 per cent.

The issue of government paper money is, indeed, a new departure; but its purpose has been more distinctly monetary than fiscal.

The day of reckoning, Mr. Mac Quedy, is the point which your paper-money science always leaves out of view.

Coins should be boiled, and paper money should be dipped in the 10 per centum carbolic acid solution and dried at a stove.

I found many people who were going without their next meal because they could not get their paper money changed.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to paper money, such as: bill of exchange, cash, dollar bill, fiat money, fiduciary currency, and negotiable instrument.

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

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