English Dictionary

free silver

名詞

アメリカ英語 歴史的 不可算名詞

(US, economics, historical) The free coinage of silver, often at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.

日本語の意味

自由銀：アメリカの経済史において、銀を金と一定の比率（例：16対1）で自由に鋳造する制度を指す。

Debates over free silver dominated the presidential campaigns of the 1890s, dividing farmers who wanted inflationary policies from urban industrialists.

1890年代の大統領選では、銀の自由鋳造をめぐる論争が中心となり、インフレを望む農民と都市の産業界を分裂させた。

意味（1）

(US, economics, historical) The free coinage of silver, often at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.