Usually means: Government decree establishes its value.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word fiat:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fiat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fiat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fiat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fiat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fiat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fiat, fiat: Wordnik
  7. fiat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. FIAT, Fiat, fiat: Wiktionary
  9. fiat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fiat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fiat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. FIAT: Dictionary.com
  13. fiat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fiat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. F.I.A.T, FIAT, Fiat (disambiguation), Fiat (policy debate), Fiat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fiat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fiat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fiat: Rhymezone
  19. Fiat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fiat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FIAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Fiat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. fiat: Free Dictionary
  24. fiat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. fiat: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. fiat: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fiat: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. FIAT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. F.I.A.T, F.I.A.T, fiat: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See fiats as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
noun:  Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.
noun:  (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
noun:  (English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
noun:  (attributive) (Pertaining to) fiat currency.
verb:  (transitive, used in academic debate and role-playing games) To make (something) happen.
noun:  An automobile manufactured by the Italian firm Fiat S.p.A..
noun:  Initialism of fix it again Tony. [(slang, derogatory, automotive) Fiat, the Italian automaker.]
noun:  Alternative form of Fiat [An automobile manufactured by the Italian firm Fiat S.p.A..]

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