Economic Definition of monetary unit. Defined.
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Term monetary unit Definition: The official (or sometimes unofficial) money used as the medium of exchange for an economy, and by extension as the unit of account for specifying prices. In the United States, for example, the monetary unit is the dollar. Other nations have different money and different monetary units. Germany uses the mark, Japan uses the yen, and England uses the pound.
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