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
Prices of Ukraine’s dollar denominate bonds were steady on Friday, according to Tradeweb data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2015
The special rival of his paper was the Globe, edited by Monsieur Granier de Cassagnac, a journalist of the type we now denominate yellow.
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne
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
Jefferson denominates it a "judiciary forgery," and I hope your Lordship will to-day confirm Jefferson's view, and put an end to this illegal iniquity.
From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Henry Hetherington
The word Djinawa is the African word that denominates Guinea, but I cannot imagine that it was ever intended to signify Gana.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
There is a legion of secondary symptoms of proctitis, all of which medical empiricism considers and denominates causes.
From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison
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
That might mean selling assets denominated in the U.S. dollar so investors can repay their yen-based loans.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Most international transactions denominated in U.S. dollars must be settled by American banks, giving Washington the ability to monitor them—and cut off users’ dollars if necessary, crippling their operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 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
I cannot conclude this article without noticing the singular properties of those electric fishes denominated the torpedo-ray and the gymnote.
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
Sticklers for a style of conventional dignity and smooth decorum may think to despatch Fuller's claims by denominating him a quaint writer.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 by Various
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