wildcat money

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A paper currency that was issued by banks in the 19th century when there was no federal regulation of banks. historical
    — Heretofore, the end that should have been sought—a faultless medium of exchange—had been lost sight of; and every writer who has presented a new theory of money, not to mention the old one, has become entangled with the dogmas, State supervision, "measure of value," "standard of value," and legal tender; or lost his bearings and shipwrecked among the breakers—fiat money, wildcat money, monometallism, bimetallism, and the like.
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