Monetisation (of public debt)/Definition

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Monetisation (of public debt) [r]: a government's sale of its own securities to the country's central bank in order to obtain funds that are used to redeem its public debt - resulting in an expansion of the bank's monetary base, and consequently of the country's money supply.