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Verb: decimalise  'de-su-mu,lIz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: decimalize)
  1. Change from fractions to decimals
    "Stock prices will be decimalised in the year 2000";
    - decimalize
     
  2. Change to the decimal system
    "The country decimalised the currency in 1975";
    - decimalize

Derived forms: decimalising, decimalises, decimalised

Type of: alter, change, change over, convert, modify

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