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/ˈbʊl.jən/ · noun
A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots..
If the mint kept back one per cent, to pay the expense of coinage, it would be against the interest of the holders of bullion to have it coined, until the coin was more valuable than the bullion by at least that fraction.
And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, / And damn for bullion, go for current now.
To beholde how it was garnysshyd and bounde, […] The claspis and bullyons were worth a thousande pounde; […]
The hair was plaited with bullion and red riband, and then wound round the head, something after the fashion of a turban, save that it entirely displayed the forehead.
Use bullion when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bullion means A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots..
Common synonyms include bullseye.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If the mint kept back one per cent, to pay the expense of coinage, it would be against the interest of the holders of bullion to have it coined, until the coin was more valuable than the bullion by at least that fraction.
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