special drawing right

English

Noun

special drawing right (plural special drawing rights)

1. A monetary unit of account maintained by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the value of which is based on a basket of major currencies, currently (since 2016) consisting of the US dollar, the euro, the renminbi, the Japanese yen, and the pound sterling.

   Synonym: paper gold

Translations

accounting unit

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特別提款權／特别提款权 (zh) (tèbié tíkuǎn quán)

• Dutch: speciaal trekkingsrecht n
• Finnish: erityisnosto-oikeus
• German: Sonderziehungsrecht (de)
• Japanese: 特別引出権 (tokubetsu hikidashi ken)