paper money

currency in paper form, such as government and bank notes, as distinguished from metal currency.

Origin of paper money

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Paper-money issues usually have had injurious effects on general industry.

The Principles of Economics |Frank A. Fetter
"Six thousand livres," answered he: some three hundred pounds sterling, in Paper-money.

The French Revolution |Thomas Carlyle
The appearance of its paper-money is not, however, inviting.

Baddeck and That Sort of Thing |Charles Dudley Warner
You loved the glorious times of paper-money, and you want them back again.

The Works of Lord Byron |Lord Byron

It is the paper-money delusion born of the civil war which generated and supports the silver-money delusion of to-day.

The Oxford Book of American Essays |Various

paper money

paper currency issued by the government or the central bank as legal tender and which circulates as a substitute for specie