Anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region.
Intermediary used in trade to avoid the inconveniences of a pure barter system.
1 But it's not a currency, although it is a medium of exchange .
2 But there remains the first function -as a medium of exchange .
3 Heads are a medium of exchange , and white heads are extremely valuable.
4 Wampum was therefore enthusiastically adopted by the Pilgrims as the medium of exchange .
5 The shekel and the maneh were the only medium of exchange .
6 The exact medium is specie, the recognized medium of exchange the world over.
7 Malleable, divisible, indestructible, rare, it is the indispensable medium of exchange .
8 They are of no value except as a medium of exchange .
9 The payment was occasionally in kind, but money was the usual medium of exchange .
10 Used in Siberia and Mongolia, where it also serves as a medium of exchange .
11 In those days live stock were used as a medium of exchange , or money.
12 Silver, which was the general medium of exchange in Persia, must have been especially plentiful.
13 Cattle and slaves (from the word "slav") were the usual medium of exchange .
14 But its more prosaic prime function, economists tell us, is as a medium of exchange .
15 Every one likes to think that money is only a medium of exchange for labor.
16 We have heard endless discussions as to the nature of the future medium of exchange .
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