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Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
Bobby Seale

Meaning of "medium of exchange" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE

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Medium of exchange is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Medium of exchange

A medium of exchange is an intermediary used in trade to avoid the inconveniences of a pure barter system. By contrast, as William Stanley Jevons argued, in a barter system there must be a coincidence of wants before two people can trade – one must want exactly what the other has to offer, when and where it is offered, so that the exchange can occur. A medium of exchange permits the value of goods to be assessed and rendered in terms of the intermediary, most often, a form of money widely accepted to buy any other good.

Definition of medium of exchange in the English dictionary

The definition of medium of exchange in the dictionary is anything acceptable as a measure of value and a standard of exchange for goods and services in a particular country, region, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE

medium
medium close shot
medium frequency
medium range missile
medium rare
medium wave
medium-dated
medium-dry
medium-fine pen
medium-priced
medium-range ballistic missile
medium-sized
medium-sweet
medium-term
medium-wave
mediumistic
mediums
mediumship
medius

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE

bill of exchange
bureaux de change
change
climate change
costume change
exchange
foreign exchange
information exchange
interchange
ion exchange
Lange
needle exchange
oil change
part exchange
part-exchange
rate of exchange
re-change
short-change
small change
stock exchange
telephone exchange

Synonyms and antonyms of medium of exchange in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «medium of exchange» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE

Find out the translation of medium of exchange to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of medium of exchange from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «medium of exchange» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

交换媒介
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medio de intercambio
570 millions of speakers

English

medium of exchange
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विनिमय का माध्यम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متوسطة الصرف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

средством обмена
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meio de troca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিনিময়ের মাধ্যম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

moyen d´échange
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Medium pertukaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tauschmittel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

交換手段
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

환율 의 매체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Medium ijol-ijolan
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

phương tiện trao đổi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பரிமாற்றம் நடுத்தர
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एक्सचेंजचे माध्यम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Değişim ortamı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mezzo di scambio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

środek wymiany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

засобом обміну
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mediu de schimb
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μέσο ανταλλαγής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ruilmiddel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bytesmedel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

byttemiddel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of medium of exchange

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE»

The term «medium of exchange» is normally little used and occupies the 119.014 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about medium of exchange

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3 QUOTES WITH «MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word medium of exchange.
1
Robert Higgs
Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.
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Bobby Seale
Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
3
Paul Singer
If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE»

Discover the use of medium of exchange in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to medium of exchange and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Essentials of Economics
of. Money. Money plays three main roles in any modern economy: it is a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account. Medium of Exchange Our cardiac surgeon-refrigerator example illustrates the role of money as a medium of  ...
Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Martha Olney, 2007
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Economics: Theory and Practice
The Definition and Functions of Money Very simply, money is anything that is generally accepted as a medium of exchange. A medium of exchange is something that people are readily willing to accept in payment for purchases of goods, ...
Patrick J. Welch, Gerry F. Welch, 2009
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Monetary Economics
The traditional specification of these functions is: (i) medium of exchange/ payments; (ii) store of value, sometimes specified as a temporary store of value or temporary abode of purchasing power; (iii) standard of deferred payments; (iv) unit of ...
Jagdish Handa, 2002
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Money and Banking: A Policy-Oriented Approach
medium of exchange the function that money serves when people exchange money for goods and services transactions costs costs of trading, such as time spent shopping and negotiating Money's most prominent role is as a medium of ...
Dean Croushore, 2006
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Barter, Exchange and Value: An Anthropological Approach
be easier (faster) to carry out trades using commodity r as a medium of exchange. This basic observation is the key to understanding the dynamic process which we are about to describe. Consider a situation completely analogous to the ...
Caroline Humphrey, Stephen Hugh-Jones, 1992
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Grundrisse:
(a) The further the division of labour develops, the more does the product cease to be a medium of exchange. The necessity of a general medium of exchange arises, a medium independent of the specific production of each and every one.
Karl Marx, 1993
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The Evolution of Culture: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION TO ...
But if a medium of exchange must have value, and if value accrues from the expenditure of labor, then anything upon which labor had been expended could have value if it could also serve a need. A medium of exchange serves a need.
Leslie A White, 2007
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Progress
7, MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE, Another device employed to facilitate exchange, that affects distribution, is a medium of exchange. Its purpose is to bring about an exchange when one person has something that a second wants, while the second ...
‎1900
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Macroeconomics
A medium of exchange is an asset that individuals acquire forthe purpose of trading goods and services rather than fortheir own consumption. Astore of value is a means of holding purchasing power overtime. A unit of account is a measure  ...
Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, 2009
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Money and Its Origins
Conclusion In view of what has been said the claim that the formation of a generally accepted medium of exchange would resolve the problem of coincidence of wants and some other difficulties of direct exchange is not entirely unfounded.
Shahzavar Karimzadi, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term medium of exchange is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Misinterpretation of Money
In its simplest form, money is a substitution for barter to make trade more efficient (formally: medium of exchange) but money is also a means for ... «Gold Seek, Jul 15»
2
A common currency is NOT a cause of economic problems!
Money isn't supposed to be a tool that is used to manipulate the economy, it is supposed to be a medium of exchange.] A single currency ... «CNA Finance, Jul 15»
3
Gold Investors Should Consider Technical Indicators of Price
... economist Hans F. Sennholz said: “For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. «Newsmax, Jul 15»
4
Let's Talk About Gold
There is no denying gold's historic role as money and medium of exchange. It seems to have been hard wired into the collective human ... «The Market Oracle, Jul 15»
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Gold's Technical Outlook After 50% Fibo Retrace
... economist Hans F. Sennholz said: “For more than two thousand years Gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. «Live Trading News, Jul 15»
6
Godfrey Bloom :Blaming the Euro for Greece Is Disingenuous at …
Blaming the euro is disingenuous at best ignorant and stupid at worst. Currency is simply a medium of exchange. Any state can use whatever it ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
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Disrupted currencies, Will Greece be the first country to formally …
Money needs to act as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. It must be divisible, fungible, portable, and must not be ... «SourceWire, Jul 15»
8
Top EU Court Official Supports VAT-Free Bitcoin Sales
For instance: a VAT Directive from 2006 — 2006/112/CE — describes virtual currencies as a “financial service” — a medium of exchange ... «newsBTC, Jul 15»
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Bitcoin, teen travel & future of money
This virtue is not — not yet, anyway — matched by the other virtues of a truly useful money: as a medium of exchange, unit of account, and store ... «Oregon Business News, Jul 15»
10
State of Bitcoin Q2 2015: Price Rallies Amid Economic Turmoil
The fundamental challenge for bitcoin as a medium of exchange (for non-illicit transactions) continues to be the lack of compelling reasons for ... «CoinDesk, Jul 15»

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