"fiat money" meaning in English

See fiat money in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fiat moneys [plural], fiat monies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|fiat monies}} fiat money (countable and uncountable, plural fiat moneys or fiat monies)
  1. (economics) Money that is not backed by any commodity, but has value because people agree on its value, and often is established as legal tender by government fiat. Wikipedia link: fiat money Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Economics Synonyms: fiat currency Translations (money that is given a legal value): 法定貨幣 (Chinese Mandarin), 法定货币 (fǎdìng huòbì) (Chinese Mandarin), fiduciair geld [neuter] (Dutch), fiatgeld [neuter] (Dutch), fidata mono (Esperanto), fiat-raha (Finnish), monnaie fiduciaire (French), moneta fiat [feminine, neuter] (Italian), pieniądz fiducjarny [masculine] (Polish), moeda fiduciária [feminine] (Portuguese), monedă fiduciară [feminine] (Romanian), moneda fiduciaria [feminine] (Spanish), fiatpengar (Swedish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fiat money meaning in English (3.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fiat moneys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiat monies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "s",
        "3": "fiat monies"
      },
      "expansion": "fiat money (countable and uncountable, plural fiat moneys or fiat monies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Economics",
          "orig": "en:Economics",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Money that is not backed by any commodity, but has value because people agree on its value, and often is established as legal tender by government fiat."
      ],
      "id": "en-fiat_money-en-noun-A1fUMZbA",
      "links": [
        [
          "economics",
          "economics"
        ],
        [
          "Money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "legal tender",
          "legal tender"
        ],
        [
          "fiat",
          "fiat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(economics) Money that is not backed by any commodity, but has value because people agree on its value, and often is established as legal tender by government fiat."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fiat currency"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "science",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "word": "法定貨幣"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fǎdìng huòbì",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "word": "法定货币"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "fiduciair geld"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "fiatgeld"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "word": "fidata mono"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "word": "fiat-raha"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "word": "monnaie fiduciaire"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "moneta fiat"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pieniądz fiducjarny"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "moeda fiduciária"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "monedă fiduciară"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "moneda fiduciaria"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
          "word": "fiatpengar"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "fiat money"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fiat money"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fiat moneys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiat monies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "s",
        "3": "fiat monies"
      },
      "expansion": "fiat money (countable and uncountable, plural fiat moneys or fiat monies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "en:Economics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Money that is not backed by any commodity, but has value because people agree on its value, and often is established as legal tender by government fiat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "economics",
          "economics"
        ],
        [
          "Money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "legal tender",
          "legal tender"
        ],
        [
          "fiat",
          "fiat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(economics) Money that is not backed by any commodity, but has value because people agree on its value, and often is established as legal tender by government fiat."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "science",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "fiat money"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fiat currency"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "word": "法定貨幣"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fǎdìng huòbì",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "word": "法定货币"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "fiduciair geld"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "fiatgeld"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "word": "fidata mono"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "word": "fiat-raha"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "word": "monnaie fiduciaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "moneta fiat"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pieniądz fiducjarny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "moeda fiduciária"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "monedă fiduciară"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "moneda fiduciaria"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "money that is given a legal value",
      "word": "fiatpengar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fiat money"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.