monetary

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to money, or measured and paid in money

   The court awarded monetary compensation for the damaged property.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to a country's currency, money supply, or the policies used to manage them

   The central bank tightened monetary policy to slow inflation.

From Middle French monetaire and Late Latin monetarius ("pertaining to money"), based on Latin moneta ("mint, coinage"). Moneta was an epithet of Juno at whose Roman temple coins were minted; the word later came to denote coined money itself.

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