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PRONUNCIATION OF STERLING AREA

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STERLING AREA

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Sterling area is a noun.
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WHAT DOES STERLING AREA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sterling area

The sterling area, or sterling bloc, began to appear informally during the early 1930s, after the pound sterling had left the gold standard in 1931, with the result that a number of currencies were pegged to sterling instead of to gold. Early in the Second World War, as an emergency measure, legislation was enacted throughout the countries of the British Empire to unite the sterling bloc countries of the Empire into a single exchange control area, with a number of aims, including protecting the external value of sterling. Thereafter, there was co-operation in exchange control matters between several countries which at the time were mostly dominions and colonies of the Empire, which was in the process of evolving into the Commonwealth of Nations. All of the British Empire except for Canada, Newfoundland, and Hong Kong formally joined the sterling area in 1939. The sterling area countries either used sterling as their own currency, or else they pegged their own currency to it. Even member countries with their own currency held large sterling balances in London for the purposes of conducting overseas trade.

Definition of sterling area in the English dictionary

The definition of sterling area in the dictionary is a group of countries that use sterling as a medium of international payments and sometimes informally as a currency against which to peg their own currencies. For these purposes they deposit sterling balances and hold gold and dollar reserves in the Bank of England Also called: sterling bloc, scheduled territories.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STERLING AREA

sterilisation
sterilise
steriliser
sterility
sterilizable
sterilization
sterilize
sterilizer
sterlet
sterling
sterling bloc
sterling silver
sterling-silver
sterlingly
sterlingness
Sterlitamak
stern
stern sheets
stern-chaser
stern-wheeler

WORDS THAT END LIKE STERLING AREA

area
catchment area
conservation area
dining area
floor area
grey area
mining area
no-go area
reception area
recreation area
restricted area
safe area
service area
six-yard area
smoking area
surface area
target area
technical area
urban area
white area
work area

Synonyms and antonyms of sterling area in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sterling area» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STERLING AREA

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

Translator English - Chinese

英镑区
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

zona de la libra
570 millions of speakers

English

sterling area
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्टर्लिंग क्षेत्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

منطقة الاسترليني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стерлингов площадь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

área esterlina
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্টার্লিং এলাকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

zone sterling
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kawasan sterling
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sterlinggebiet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スターリング地域
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스털링 지역
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wilayah sterling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khu vực sterling
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்டெர்லிங் பகுதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्टर्लिंग क्षेत्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sterlin alanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

area della sterlina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Powierzchnia szterling
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стерлінгів площа
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zona sterline
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζώνη επιρροής της στερλίνας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sterlinggebied
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sterling område
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sterling område
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sterling area

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STERLING AREA»

The term «sterling area» is normally little used and occupies the 117.073 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STERLING AREA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sterling area» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sterling area» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sterling area

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STERLING AREA»

Discover the use of sterling area in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sterling area and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Britain and the Sterling Area: From Devaluation to ...
This volume makes a significant contribution to unravelling the strands of British external economic policy in the post-war period.
Catherine Ruth Schenk, 1994
2
Britain and the Sterling Area: From Devaluation to ...
First, there had to be a strong international demand for sterling area primary products. The second requirement was that the sterling area should satisfy its demand for manufactured imports in the UK rather than elsewhere. Close historical ties ...
Dr Catherine Schenk, 1994
3
The Decline of Sterling: Managing the Retreat of an ...
commercial role was thus determined mainly by the share of the United Kingdom and the sterling area in global trade. A further enquiry in 1960 suggested that 70 per cent of trade between the sterling area and the rest of the world was still ...
Catherine R. Schenk, 2010
4
The Commonwealth and the Sterling Area: Statistical Abstracts
Total Trade of the Sterling Area 3 Commonwealth Imports by direction: 4. Imports into the Commonwealth 4 5. Imports into the United Kingdom 4 6. Imports into other Commonwealth countries 4 Commonwealth Exports by direction: 7. Exports  ...
Great Britain. Board of Trade, 1968
5
The Growth of the International Economy, 1820-1960: An ...
introduction of exchange controls in 1939 which remained in force until the late 1950s and which were the main formal link binding the wartime Sterling Area. The principle underlying the system was simple. All gold and foreign currency ...
A. G. Kenwood, A. L. Lougheed, 1971
6
Dilemmas of the Dollar: The Economics and Politics of United ...
by buying it directly from Britain, the holder of the reserve pool for the sterling area. However, they shifted instead from sterling into gold through dollars. The United Kingdom apparently argued that its gold reserve had become too slender to ...
C. Fred Bergsten, 1996
7
NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War
Preference created a sterling “bloc” out of the sterling area, in effect making it autarchic, or self-sufficient. Trade among sterling area nations remained duty free , whereas high tariffs were set against all imports produced outside the sterling ...
Curt Cardwell, 2011
8
Trade, Finance, and Development in Pakistan
These arrangements are the gradual, natural outgrowth of the U.K.'s historic role in world trade and finance and its special political relationship with most Sterling Area countries. Membership in the Sterling Area involves certain obligations ...
James Russell Andrus, Azizali F. Mohammed, 1966
9
The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa Since ...
6 The economic dimension: South Africa and the sterling area, 1931–1961 South Africa's long and loyal membership of the sterling area is one of the most remarkable features of that country's relations with Britain in the twentieth century  ...
Ronald Hyam, Peter Henshaw, 2003
10
The Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-51
The third was an equally drastic change of policy in the United States, the abandonment of the aim of integrating the United Kingdom into a united Western Europe and the acceptance of the existence of the sterling area and of the United  ...
Alan S. Milward, 1984

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STERLING AREA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sterling area is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Tornadoes Reportedly Touch Down in Sublette, Sterling
Damage to a mall in the Sterling area is extensive, with a roof reported to have been torn off a Sporting Goods store. Patrons tweeted messages of being trapped ... «MyStateline.com, Jun 15»
2
Pound soars against the euro as Tories win election
With more than 40% of food and drink exports are destined for the sterling area any change in the EUR/GBP exchange rates has the potential to impact on the ... «Agriland, May 15»
3
LCSO releases sketch of suspect in Sterling area armed robberies
(WJLA) - A sketch of a suspect possibly involved in four armed robberies in the Sterling area, two in the past week and two in December, has been released by ... «WJLA, Feb 14»
4
Nobel laureate: Sterling area most logical option
Nobel Prize winning economist Sir James Mirrlees has underlined that a shared sterling area would be in the interests of not just an independent Scotland, but ... «SNP, Feb 14»
5
Carney: sharing sterling between iScotland and rUK could lead to …
Sharing sterling between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK could .... "Ultimately, as Mr Carney makes clear, a sterling area is a matter for the two ... «Herald Scotland, Jan 14»
6
Why Scotland should peg an 'independent' currency to the British …
The positive arguments for the retention of the British pound sterling (GBP) by ... a formal part of sterling area following independence, the Scottish government ... «Pound Sterling Live, Nov 13»
7
Sterling Area Health Center CEO stepping down
Roger Rushlow, right, is resigning from his position with the Sterling Area Health Center. His replacement, Bill Wypyski, left, will take over as CEO Nov. 18. «The Arenac County Independent, Oct 13»
8
Violent felon escapes from Sterling prison
Investigators believe Alward, who is serving time for attempted first-degree murder and numerous other charges, remains in the Sterling area. How he managed ... «Denver Post, Aug 10»

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