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. Lukman Otunuga:

   Heightened political risk at home coupled with Brexit uncertainty may prompt the BOE to repeatedly delay monetary policy normalization in 2018, if expectations continue to diminish over the central bank raising UK interest rates, sterling is at risk of experiencing heavy losses down the road.

2. Russ Mould:

   The UK has consistently underperformed on the global stage since June 2016's Brexit vote and sterling has failed to regain the levels at which The UK traded before Britain decide to leave the EU, that rotten effort may mean that The UK stocks are unloved and therefore potentially undervalued.

3. Kamal Sharma:

   If you look at the breakdown of franc performance since the start of the year, it is clear that franc underperformance has been concentrated versus the high beta currencies and sterling in particular.

4. Cem Karakas:

   This year's investments will exceed the 1.6 billion lira in 2015, in the snacks segment particularly, we want to expand our business by 17 percent each year in sterling (GBP) terms. To achieve this we need to invest in our capacity.

5. Ian Williams:

   Sterling up and FTSE up does suggest that there's a slight sigh of relief generally, (The UK) is quite defensive, so in trade war times when industrials and tech are getting clobbered, that's not so much of problem for the UK because those sectors are not as big in weighting terms as they are for the Euro zone or the U.S..