cambism
cambism noun: the business of currency exchange.
Noun
cambism (uncountable)
- The business of currency exchange.
- He will there find observations on trading correspondence, and the art of letter writing, on the authors who have written pro forma invoices, bills, &c.; those on law, on cambism, and the operations in exchanges.1842, Nathaniel Whittock, The Complete Book of Trades
- ... to misconception of the involutions of cambism, underlying the assumptions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as expressed in his speech on the Gold Standard Bill on May 4, 1925.1925, A.S. Baxendale, Currency : an indictment, page 141
Examples of cambism in a sentence
- Spraos [1972], is that Cambism may on the whole be realistic when speculation is not rife.1978, Michael Beenstock, The foreign exchanges: theory, modelling, and policy, page 24:
- Note the double morality surrounding cambism...1999, Tom De Herdt, Stefaan Marysse, “The Reinvention of the market from below: the end of the women's money changing monopoly in...
Questions about cambism
- What does cambism mean?
- Cambism means the business of currency exchange.
- How do you use cambism in a sentence?
- Spraos [1972], is that Cambism may on the whole be realistic when speculation is not rife.
- What part of speech is cambism?
- Cambism is a noun.
Words near cambism in the dictionary
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