Circulation vs Demonetize - What's the difference?
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(senseid)The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
(senseid)The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
To withdraw the status of legal tender from a coin (etc.) and remove it from circulation.
To declare ineligible or worthless as a medium of exchange or as legal tender.
*These stamps are obsolete and worthless for postage. A reasonable time after hostilities began in 1861 was given for the exchange of stamps in the hands of the public and for the replacement of post office stocks. Their acceptance in the prepayment of postage was ordered discontinued in the several States and Territories, [...].
As a noun circulation
is (senseid)the act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.As a verb demonetize is
to withdraw the status of legal tender from a coin (etc) and remove it from circulation.circulation
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demonetize
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*demonetise (UK )Verb
(demonetiz)- 1943 Post Office Department, U.S.', ''A Description of United States Postage Stamps Issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847, to April 1, 1945 [sic]''. Washington: United States Government Printing Office; p4: ''Stamps of 1847 and 1851 ' Demonetized /