sterling area

1. 1.

   the group of countries whose currencies are tied to the British pound sterling

   Synonymssterling blocscheduled territories

   Broaderbloc

Questions about sterling area

What does sterling area mean?

sterling area means "the group of countries whose currencies are tied to the British pound sterling".

What is another word for sterling area?

Close synonyms include sterling bloc, scheduled territories. 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 sterling area a common word?

sterling area 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.