monetarist
/mˈɑnətɚɪst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism.
noun
An economist who is an advocate of monetarism.
Example Sentences
- "In May 1979 Margaret Thatcher became prime minister promising to end the inflation that had plagued the country for nearly a decade, by imposing heavy restrictions on the growth of the money supply. Over the next five years, monetarist policies succeeded in plunging the British economy into the deepest recession it had seen since the great depression. […] Fast forward to March 2014, and the Bank of England has begun to bury its monetarist legacy."
Etymology
From monetary + -ist, from Latin monetarius, from monēta. By surface analysis, Latin monet(a) + -arist.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: monetarius