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fiat | American Dictionary

fiat
noun[ U ]
 fmlus/ˈfi·æt, -ɑt, -ət/
the giving of orders by someone who has complete authority:
The general ruled by fiat for eight years after seizing power.

Examples of fiat

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I do not think that fiat really is a panacea for legal indeterminacy.
An infinite sequence of generations allows a government to issue fiat money handed from one generation to another.
It is an a priori fiat of the design of the logical language that individual constants pick out particular individuals with absolute consistency.
Yet his unchecked authority enabled him to overcome suspicions by fiat.
Either way, you will end up answering the question without appealing to divine fiats.
This suggests a need for centralized institutions to support the circulation of fiat money, which is what seems to have happened historically.
This paper reconsiders the transition from barter to fiat money when prices are determined endogenously by the strategic bargaining process.
The essential value of selfhood, therefore, was assured by divine fiat rather than by purely human effort.
Only, it seems, by an arbitrary fiat, which cannot be relied upon (especially as the children's tastes may differ).
Therefore, if a sufficient amount of fiat money is supplied, the fixed asset (land) need not play the role of commodity money in the equilibrium.
However, censorship was not the exercise of an administrative fiat.
What makes this so surprising is its unabashed lack of foundation: it is a product of exegetical fiat.
Section 2 describes the basic model of bank liquidity provision with fiat currency and aggregate uncertainty.
For the process of grouping in the cases that are by concession beyond the reach of official fiat is a dynamic process.
Both young and middle-aged consumers may hold fiat money m, the value of which depreciates with a rate of inflation each period.
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