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reserve currency

noun

  1. any currency, as the U.S. dollar, used as a medium to settle international debts.


reserve currency

noun

  1. foreign currency that is acceptable as a medium of international payments and that is therefore held in reserve by many countries


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Word History and Origins

Origin of reserve currency1

First recorded in 1965–70

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Example Sentences

Who would take the weaker dollars China would unload onto this reserve currency?

But China will be happy as it wants SDRs to replace the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency.

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