Used Occasionally. sublimation is one of the 30000 most commonly used words in the Collins dictionary
monetary unit. one of the units of CURRENCY used in a country as the basis of payments and lending and borrowing transactions. The units of currency used in the UK, for example, are pounds and pence, while in the USA they are the dollar and cent.
: a formerly used monetary unit equal to 1,000,000 reis or to 1000 Portuguese escudos or 1000 Brazilian cruzeiros.