bullion

CEFRC1

/ˈbʊl.jən/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Gold or silver valued by its weight rather than its form.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Base or uncurrent coin.

Examples

  • Each bar of bullion was stamped with its weight, purity, and serial number.

  • The vault was filled to the brim with gold bullion bars.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.

  2. A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.

  3. The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.

More examples

In context

  • And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, / And damn for bullion, go for current now.

  • If the mint kept back one per cent, to pay the expense of coinage, it would be against the interest of the holders of bullion to have it coined, until the coin was more valuable than the bullion by at least that fraction.

  • To beholde how it was garnysshyd and bounde, […] The claspis and bullyons were worth a thousande pounde; […]

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Origin

noun

From Middle English bulloin, bullioun, from Anglo-Norman bullion, of obscure origin, perhaps from French bouillon, extending the sense to that of ‘melting’. Middle Dutch boelioen (“base metal”) seems to have come from the unrelated French billon.