silver standard

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   a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of silver

   Broaderstandard

Questions about silver standard

What does silver standard mean?

silver standard means "a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of silver".

Is silver standard a common word?

silver standard 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.