Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who advocates the use of a double metallic standard in currency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An advocate of bimetallism.
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- noun An
advocate ofbimetallism - adjective Advocating bimetallism
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- noun an advocate of bimetallism
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Examples
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Republicans nominated, had voted in Congress for the free coinage of silver, was widely known as a bimetallist, and was only with difficulty persuaded to accept the unequivocal indorsement of the gold standard which was pressed upon him by his counselors.
History of the United States Mary Ritter Beard 1917
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Mr.R. M.T. Hunter, an avowed bimetallist, in a report to the United States Senate, said:
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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It is rumoured that the Goose that laid the Golden Eggs has become a bimetallist.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 Various
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How much, and where will it come from? asks the bimetallist.
If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter
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Mr. Leonard H. Courtney, one of the monometallist members of that commission who signed the report, has since become an avowed bimetallist, as have many other prominent Englishmen.
If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter
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But he declares himself to be a bimetallist in the true sense of the term.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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He decides in favour of gold and silver, and shows himself an unquestioning bimetallist.
An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien
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There was only a bare possibility that an international agreement always to regard sixteen ounces of silver as worth one ounce of gold might establish the ratio, but to this straw the bimetallist turned, trying to ward off the demand for free silver with his plea for international bimetallism.
The New Nation William E. [Editor] Dodd 1912
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'There,' people of wide experience would say, 'There goes the sallowest bimetallist in Cheshire.'
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Senator Sherman is an international bimetallist and a pronounced opponent of independent silver coinage.
American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1869
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