How to Use medium of exchange in a Sentence
medium of exchange
noun phrase-
In early societies, commodities like salt were used as mediums of exchange.
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Hammed Afenifere,
Forbes.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Now, however, two forces are helping push Bitcoin adoption as a medium of exchange.
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Roger Huang,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Unlike other precious metals, gold is rare enough to be precious but abundant enough to serve as a practical medium of exchange.
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Marley Malenfant,
Austin American Statesman,
28 Oct. 2025
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Crypto, by contrast, is merely a medium of exchange whose price reflects only the balance of supply and demand.
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Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Yet another critical aspect of money is its use as a medium of exchange — the day-to-day use of money to exchange goods and services.
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Roger Huang,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Iranian currency has become less a medium of exchange than a daily index of national despair.
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Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
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Many cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets – including bitcoin – remain too volatile or (in the case of many NFTs) too illiquid to be used as a medium of exchange.
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Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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