Noun: bancor
| Singular | bancor |
| Plural | bancors |
Sample Sentences
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Absent significant monetary instability or an injunction for use of bancor for the making of an important set of payments (e.g. payment of taxes), surmounting the barriers to wide acceptance would be a key and perhaps prohibitive challenge. [2010, IMF, Reserve Accumulation and International Monetary Stability, page 27:]
Nouns inflected like bancor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Coined by John Maynard Keynes in 1940-42, based on French banque (“bank”) and or (“gold”). See: French Nouns '
banque'.