Synonyms for sterling
ˈstɜr lɪŋster·ling

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1. sterling

   Synonyms:
   sound, substantial, unalloyed, pure, unadulterated, standard, genuine, essential, solid

   Antonyms:
   fictitious, ungenuine, ascititious, specious, pretentious, ostensible, plausible

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1. sterlingadjective

   British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK

   Antonyms:
   inferior

2. greatest, sterling(a), superlativeadjective

   highest in quality

   Antonyms:
   inferior

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1. sterlingadjective

   Synonyms:
   genuine, pure, true, real, substantial, positive

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1. List of paraphrases for "sterling":

   sterlings, excellent, pound, staley, £, stirling, pounds

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1. Dana Boente:

   For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

2. Jim Reid:

   The whole 'Brexit' discussion is pushing us against what has been a well held level at around $1.40 that sterling has bounced off several times over the last three decades.

3. Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary:

   Our people don't want to be registered with Danish unions because the Danish collective agreement -- which has been such a success on world-leading Danish airlines like Cimber Air, Sterling, Maersk, all of whom bestride the aviation globe as international colossi -- would require us to cut their pay, our pay is higher than the Danish collective agreement, but we would have to then pay for things like their underwear -- they have an underwear allowance because that's what's in the Danish collective agreement -- and, frankly, our pilots and cabin crew would rather buy their own knickers as long as we pay them more money.

4. David Marcus:

   We could do it differently, instead of having a synthetic unit ... we could have a series of stablecoins, a dollar stablecoin, a euro stablecoin, a sterling pound stable coin, etc.

5. Carlos Chorens:

   The following day, Sterling and I went to McDonald's and bought them breakfast, i came back at six o'clock, made contact with them and found out that they lost some of their property. Someone had stolen some of their suitcases.