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.
Also found in: Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. unit of account. 2. (Economics) Also called (esp US and Canadian): money of account a monetary denomination used for accounting purposes, etc, but not necessarily corresponding to any real currency: the ECU is the unit of account of the European Monetary Fund. 3. (Economics) the unit of currency of a country.