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UK
/bˈʊliən/
]
[ US /ˈbʊɫjən/ ]
[ US /ˈbʊɫjən/ ]
NOUN
- a mass of precious metal
- gold or silver in bars or ingots
How To Use bullion In A Sentence
- Try telling that to folk who bought into the bullion fad five years ago and have lost a third of their money since then. Times, Sunday Times
- The hoard had been buried in a lead chest, fragments of which survive, and the presence of small bone pins suggests that some of the coins or bullion had been parcelled up into separate bags or parcels, secured by these pins.
- Current bets - The biggest single holding is in gold bullion. Times, Sunday Times
- Otherwise, aside from buying bullion itself, exchange traded commodities are the most direct route into the precious metal. Times, Sunday Times
- At one stage, Sir William calculates that they were valued higher than silver bullion, and comprised some 1.5% of Britain's entire export trade to Chile.
- The performance of equities against bullion is not looking pretty at the moment," says Evy Hambro , who heads the natural-resources team at BlackRock, one of the world's biggest asset managers. Gold Gains Don't Carry Miners
- If, therefore, the issue of inconvertible paper were subjected to strict rules, one rule being that whenever bullion rose above the Mint price gold parity, the issues should he contracted until the market price of bullion and the Mint price were again in accordance, such a currency would not be subject to any of the evils usually deemed inherent in an inconvertible paper. A Return To Basics: What Is Stable Money?
- The basic form of processed gold is gold bullion, and ingots or bars of bullion would be used for very large transactions.
- Ever since the bank suspension of 1837, I have been a bullionist, and sustained that doctrine in the Senate of the United The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
- The film was one of the best-loved screen hits of the 60s, as a gang swipes a stash of gold bullion from a bank vault in Turin.