1. To remove a currency unit or coin’s status as legal money.
2. To remove or disable an opportunity for content or an activity to earn revenue.
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Words that belong together
- demonetize a coin
- demonetize a currency unit
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The reform demonetized the old coin after the specified transition period.
A currency unit could be demonetized even while collectors continued to assign it a price.
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Word forms
- Base
- demonetize
- Past tense
- demonetized
- Past participle
- demonetized
- Present participle
- demonetizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- demonetize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are demonetizing
- Present perfect
- have/has demonetized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been demonetizing
- Past
- demonetized
- Past continuous
- was/were demonetizing
- Past perfect
- had demonetized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been demonetizing
- Future
- will demonetize
- Future continuous
- will be demonetizing
- Future perfect
- will have demonetized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been demonetizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: demonetize; demonetizes; demonetized; demonetized; demonetizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: demonetizes.
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