paper gold

1. 1.

   reserve assets in the International Monetary Fund; designed to supplement reserves of gold and convertible currencies used to maintain stability in the foreign exchange market

   Synonymsspecial drawing rights

   Broaderreserve assets

Questions about paper gold

What does paper gold mean?

paper gold means "reserve assets in the International Monetary Fund; designed to supplement reserves of gold and convertible currencies used to maintain stability in the foreign exchange market".

What is another word for paper gold?

Close synonyms include special drawing rights. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paper gold a common word?

paper gold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.