Gold
Gold noun - Something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment.
Medium of exchange and gold are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Medium of exchange" instead a noun "Gold".
Nearby Words: golden, goldish, Goldie
Medium of exchange
Medium of exchange noun - Anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region.
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Synonyms for Medium of exchange
Gold and medium of exchange are semantically related. You can use "Gold" instead a noun phrase "Medium of exchange".
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Related pairs
- property and gold
- property and medium of exchange
- change and gold
- change and medium of exchange
- treasure and gold
- treasure and medium of exchange
- wealth and gold
- wealth and medium of exchange
- silver and gold
- silver and medium of exchange
- capital and gold
- capital and medium of exchange
- riches and gold
- riches and medium of exchange
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- The idea that steel should be more valuable than gold because it is more useful than gold is ridiculous, since money should, ideally, have no intrinsic value or use other than as a medium of exchange, but there's nothing particularly problematic about using steel coins as money.
Source: Artistic License Economics - But then, there have been several references to gold being a valuable commodity and presumably a medium of exchange.
Source: Artistic License Economics -
Much discussion of this in Making Money, including pointing out that gold is worthless on a desert island, that it's also worthless in a gold mine (where the medium of exchange is the pickaxe), and the contrast between what happens when you bury gold vs.
Source: Practical Currency
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