[
UK
/dˌɛsɪməlaɪzˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
-
the act of changing to a decimal system
the decimalization of British currency
How To Use decimalisation In A Sentence
- The rollout, which is being billed as the biggest UK financial changeover since decimalisation, will happen simultaneously across the country and not region by region.
- In a professional career that started after his demob from National Service in 1954 and ended in 1971 when Britain embraced decimalisation Cooper was twice named sports personality of the year and reigned longer than anyone else as British heavyweight champion. No bad words, just praise, for Henry Cooper as he loses his last fight
- He is confident that the new currency is being so well regulated that the difficulties faced by people adapting to decimalisation will not happen with the €uro.
- As a country with some recent experience of currency change, the UK should remember the inflationary aspects of decimalisation in 1971.
- A further law of 18 Germinal of the following year provided for the decimalisation of the new currency and the naming of it as the ‘franc’.
- It is the UK's biggest consumer project since decimalisation.
