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sterling area

noun

  1. a group of countries that use sterling as a medium of international payments and sometimes informally as a currency against which to peg their own currencies. For these purposes they deposit sterling balances and hold gold and dollar reserves in the Bank of England Also calledsterling blocscheduled territories

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It will enable the whole sterling area and other countries affiliated with it to resume trade on a multilateral basis.

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