circulating medium
Example Sentences
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If the object were to furnish a circulating medium, the legal tender treasury notes would have been a preferable currency.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
Taking it in connection with the combination of corporations, and Wall street brokers, the prospect of having coin as a circulating medium is but faint, if it is ever possible.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
Little need there would be to go to any expense in getting out posters when there was such a splendid circulating medium close at hand.
From Fast Nine or, A Challenge from Fairfield by Douglas, Alan
It completely accomplished its object; and that object was to restore to a sound basis the currency of the country, and to give the people a uniform circulating medium.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel
During his Mayoralty, the city made an issue of paper money and this circulating medium brought no small relief to the people.
