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monetary

Legal Definition of monetary

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to finance, money, or currency
  2. Consisting of money
  3. Pecuniary

Definition of monetary

Etymology

    from Late Latin monetarius (“pertaining to money”), from Latin monetarius (“of a mint”), from Latin moneta (“mint", "coinage”)

Adjective

monetary (comparative more monetary, superlative most monetary)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of money.

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