verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To assign monetary status to; to start circulating and accepting as currency. transitive

   "to monetarize gold"

Antonyms

All antonyms

demonetarize

Etymology

From monet(ary) + -arize.

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