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dollarisation

dollarisation is the alternative spelling of dollarization.

Meaning of dollarization

Noun

dollarization (uncountable)

  1. The process of a country, officially, or its residents, unofficially, adopting the US dollar or other foreign currency in parallel to or instead of the domestic currency.
    • “Many emerging-market economies have tried a number of technical devices: the fixed rate peg, varieties of crawling peg, currency boards and even dollarization,” Mr. Greenspan said in a recent speech. “The success has been mixed. Where successful, they have been backed by sound policies.”1999 January 2, Joseph Kahn, quoting Alan Greenspan, “Era May End For Floating Currencies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2017
    Antonyms:
    dedollarization

Origin of dollarisation

From dollar + -isation.

Questions about dollarisation

What is dollarisation the alternative spelling of?
Dollarisation is the alternative spelling of dollarization.

Words near dollarisation in the dictionary

  1. dollarfishes
  2. Dollarhide
  3. Dollarhides
  4. dollaring out
  5. dollaring up
  6. dollarisation
  7. dollarise
  8. dollarised
  9. dollarises
  10. dollarising
  11. dollarization

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