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Definition: Seigniorage |
SeigniorageNoun1. Charged by a government for coining bullion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Seigniorage, also spelled seignorage, is the net revenue derived from the issuing of currency. It arises from the difference between the face value of a coin or bank note and the cost of producing and distributing it. Seigniorage is an important source of revenue for national governments.Seigniorage can be regarded a form of tax levied on the holders of a currency, and as such a redistribution of resources to the issuer. Expansion of the monetary base, by issuing currency, can however induce inflation and a government relying heavily on seigniorage, as source of revenue, will find it counter productive in the long run. Examples include the hyperinflation in Germany, during the 1920s.
See also: Central bank, Money
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Seigniorage."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Money | Seigniorage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Seigniorage |
| English words defined with "seigniorage": Brassage. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Seigniorage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Seigniorage" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
seigniorage | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "seigniorage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | e drejtë e zoti. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | феодална власт (seigniory), права на феодален владетел. (various references) | |
Greek | κυριαρχικό δικαίωμα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | földesúri jog. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eignioragesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | senhoriagem. (various references) | |
Russian | право сеньора. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | danak feudnom gospodaru. (various references) | |
Turkish | sikke vergisi, tuğra hakkı. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quyền lãnh chúa thuế đúc tiền. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seigniorage": seigniorages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "seigniorage" (pronounced sē'gnē"erij) |
| 3 | -er i j | amperage, average, beverage, brokerage, hemorrhage, leverage, pilferage, sewerage, stockbrokerage, underage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-g-i-i-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: seignorage. | |
-3 letters: agreeing, anergies, engagers, engorges, eringoes, gasogene, gearings, gesneria, greasing, organise, seagoing, seignior, snaggier. | |
-4 letters: ageings, agonies, agonise, airings, arenose, arising, earings, engager, engages, engorge, enrages, erasing, erasion, eringos, gainers, gangers, gearing, genoise, gingers, granges, greeing, greiges, greisen, gringos, ignores, ironies, isagoge, naggers, naggier, noisier, onagers, oranges, origans, origins, raggees, raggies, raising. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-g-i-i-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: seigniorages. | |
+3 letters: segregationist. | |
+4 letters: antisegregation, segregationists. | |
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