Definitions For Metallist
Noun
METALLIST (plural METALLISTs) (metallurgy) a person who works with metals (economics) an advocate of metal coinage as the principal or sole currency : No economist, with the possible exception of the most doctrinaire metallists, have ever expressed any other opinion. --American Economic Review (1938) 28, p. 316 : While not all Jacksonians were Metallists, or vice versa, the Jacksonian Metallists sought to purge the currency of small bank notes and replace them with gold and silver coins. --Exploring Economic History (1974) 11, p. 228 : The authors argue that Ricardo, unlike Marx, was no ‘metallist’, that is, he never applied the labour theory of value to the monetary metal to determine the general price level. --Economic Journal (1991) 101, p. 407 A metaller: a fan of the metal music genre.Related terms
bimetallist metallismEtymology
metal + istSee also
Gresham's lawIs Metallist a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
NO
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
NO
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
11
Words with Friends
14
The word Metallist is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends