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Acceptable:
One of the key features of money-to be widely accepted
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Barter:
To exchange goods and services for other goods and services without using money
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Current account:
Bank or building society accounts where people can store their money in the form of electronic balances and withdraw it to make payments
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Denomination:
A group of coins or notes that share the same face value
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Divisible:
A key feature of money- to be easily divided into amounts of different value
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Double coincidence of wants:
A situation in which two people have goods or services to trade and each wants what the other person can provide
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Durable:
A key feature of money-to be strong enough to be reused in many transactions
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Face value:
The value marked on a coin or note
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Fiduciary value:
Value basedo n trust in the banking system
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Homogeneous:
A key feature of money-to look and feel the same as other coins and notes of the same denomination
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Inflation:
A rise in prices, which means that the purchasing power of money falls
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Intrinsic value:
The value that an item has itself
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Legal tender:
Coins or banknotes that must be accepted if offered in payment of a debt
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Means of exchange:
A function of money-to allow people to make payments
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Money:
Anything widely accepted as a means of payment
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Payment mechanism:
A means of transferring money from one account to another
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Portable:
A key feature of money-to be small and light enough to carry around easily
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Purchasing power:
The quantity of goods or services that money can buy
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Rate of exchange:
How much one item is worth in terms of different items
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Recognisable:
A key feature of money-to be easily identified as genuine money
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Representational value:
The value that an item represents rather than the value it has in itself
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Scarce but sufficent:
A key feature of money – to be available in sufficient quantities to meet people’s needs but not in such quantities that the value of money falls
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Store of value:
An attribute of money that allows people to store money now and spend it later
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Transaction:
Buying or selling something
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Unit of account:
A function of money – to allow people to compare prices and to measure the value of money in a bank account
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To exchange goods and services for other goods and services without using money

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Barter:

Card 3

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Bank or building society accounts where people can store their money in the form of electronic balances and withdraw it to make payments

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Card 4

Front

A group of coins or notes that share the same face value

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Card 5

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A key feature of money- to be easily divided into amounts of different value

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