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monetary

UK/ˈmʌnɪtəɹi//ˈmɑnɪˌtɛɹi/

monetary adjective: of, pertaining to, or consisting of money.

Adjective

monetary (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of money.
    • Although of little monetary value, Rosie treasured her late grandfather's old hunting gear.
    • So what’s the Fed to do? It must manage interest rates without a working monetary policy compass.2019 August 1, Mark Zandi, “Blame Trump for the Fed’s broken monetary policy compass”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2026

monetary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

monetary in Hindi

of or relating to money
आर्थिक ārthik, वित्तीय vittīya

monetary in Tamil

சார்ந்த, நாணயஞ் சார்ந்த, பணம் சார்ந்த, பணம்சார்ந்த

monetary in Urdu

مالیاتی, زری

monetary in Bengali

আর্থিক, অর্থবিষয়ক, মুদ্রাপূর্ণ, মুদ্রাবিষয়ক, আর্থ
More languagesFewer languages
monetary in Malayalam
സാമ്പത്തിക sāmpattika
monetary in Kannada
ಚಲಾವಣೆಯ, ಹಣದ, ಹಣಕಾಸಿನ, ಆರ್ಥಿಕ
monetary in Punjabi
ਮਾਇਕ māika
monetary in Nepali
मौद्रिक
monetary in Arabic
نَقْدِيّ naqdiyy, مَالِيّ māliyy
monetary in Indonesian
moneter
monetary in Persian
پولی puli, مالی mâli

Examples of monetary in a sentence

  • Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
  • He was in a position to commit to a credibly conservative monetary policy.
  • You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.

All 40 example sentences with monetary

Origin of monetary

From Middle French monétaire, from Late Latin monētārius (“pertaining to money”), from Latin monētārius (“of a mint”), from monēta (“mint, coinage”), from the presence—from 273 BC to AD 84—of the chief Roman mint at the Templum Iunonis Monetae (“Temple of Juno Moneta”), q.v. Doublet of minter.

Words formed from monetary

Phrases with monetary

Questions about monetary

What does monetary mean?
Monetary means of, pertaining to, or consisting of money.
What is monetary in Hindi?
Monetary in Hindi is आर्थिक (ārthik), वित्तीय (vittīya). See Monetary meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is monetary?
Monetary is an adjective.
How do you pronounce monetary?
Monetary is pronounced /ˈmʌnɪtəɹi/ (UK).

Words near monetary in the dictionary

  1. monetarization
  2. monetarize
  3. monetarized
  4. monetarizes
  5. monetarizing
  6. monetary
  7. monetary impotence
  8. monetary instrument
  9. monetary instruments
  10. monetary policies
  11. monetary policy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: monetary (page history and authors); monetary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); monetary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); monetary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); സാമ്പത്തിക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); monetary (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਮਾਇਕ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); monetary (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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