noun. The use of a monetary standard consisting of two metals, especially gold and silver, in a fixed ratio of value.

noun. The doctrine advocating bimetallism.

noun. The use of two metals as money at relative values set by legislative enactment; the union of two metals in circulation as money at a fixed rate.

noun. The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

noun. The use of a monetary standard based upon two different metals, traditionally gold and silver usually in a fixed ratio of values.

noun. a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by stated amounts of two metals (usually gold and silver) with values set at a predetermined ratio

"When the Fed was founded in 1913, the U.S. was on the gold standard, so controlling the value of money wasn't within its brief; arguments over inflation vs. deflation focused on so-called bimetallism, or the dilution of the gold standard with silver, which Congress determined."

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