monetized?

[sagehen]

>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>
>>OED has it from the 1860s or the 1950s, depending on which sense.
>
>Thanks - I'll check the OED entry. Is its use today relatively rare? Or do
>I just not move in the monetized circles?
>
>Bethany
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Its negative, "demonetize" was heard in the UK quite a bit when I was last
there, shortly before the decimalization of the currency.  It had to do
with taking certain coins out of circulation by removing their monetary
value altogether.
A. Murie