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monetarist

monetarist adjective: of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism.

Adjective

monetarist (comparative more monetarist, superlative most monetarist)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism.
    • In May 1979 Margaret Thatcher became prime minister promising to end the inflation that had plagued the country for nearly a decade, by imposing heavy restrictions on the growth of the money supply. Over the next five years, monetarist policies succeeded in plunging the British economy into the...2014 March 22, Philip Pilkington, “Monetarism is the living dead of economic theory – let's kill it off”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019

Noun

monetarist (plural monetarists)

  1. An economist who is an advocate of monetarism.

monetarist meaning in Tamil

monetarist in Tamil

பணவியல் வல்லுநர்

Forms of monetarist

Adjective
comparativemore monetarist
superlativemost monetarist
Noun
pluralmonetarists

Origin of monetarist

From monetary + -ist, from Latin monetarius, from monēta. By surface analysis, Latin monet(a) + -arist.

Words formed from monetarist

Questions about monetarist

What does monetarist mean?
Monetarist means of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism.
What is monetarist in Tamil?
Monetarist in Tamil is பணவியல் வல்லுநர். See Monetarist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is monetarist?
Monetarist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near monetarist in the dictionary

  1. monetarisation
  2. monetarise
  3. monetarised
  4. monetarism
  5. monetarisms
  6. monetarist
  7. monetaristic
  8. monetarists
  9. monetarization
  10. monetarize
  11. monetarized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monetarist (page history and authors); monetarist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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