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.
1. (Economics) a monetary system in which the unit of currency is defined with reference to gold. 2. the supreme example of something against which others are judged or measured: the current gold standard for breast cancer detection.