noun. An alloy of gold or silver with a greater proportion of another metal, such as copper, used in making coins.

noun. An alloy of silver with a high percentage of copper, used in making medals and tokens.

noun. Gold or silver alloyed with copper in large proportions, so as to make a base metal.

noun. Coin struck from an alloy over half copper.

noun. An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

noun. Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that is used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc.

"By the end of our first year in office, the economy was beginning to recover and by our second budget, for fiscal 1979, we had cut the federal deficit almost by half, to $40 billon."

Dillon  Dylan  Macmillan  Spillane  bouillon  

eight-five  fifty  fifty-thousand  forty-thousand  half-billion  

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