He runs the company by fiat.
the school principal issued a fiat that caps were not to be worn inside the school, and that was that
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Why gold demand surged While the dollar or the euro isn’t going away anytime soon, Doshi said the demand for real hard assets that complement fiat currency rose over the last few decades as global debt and governments’ share of that debt has increased.—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025 Institutions would rather pay in stablecoins or fiat equivalents, but support for that remains limited and inconsistent across networks.—Thiago Rüdiger, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025 Kraken has launched Krak for crypto and fiat transfers across more than 100 countries.—Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 Stablecoins are cryptos that are pegged to fiat currencies, such as the dollar.—Brian Evans, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fiat
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Etymology
Latin, let it be done, 3rd singular present subjunctive of fieri to become, be done — more at be
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