The paper introduces a class of inverse (sub)monoids which contains Jones-Lawson's gauge inverse (sub)monoid.The aim is to give examples and the basic properties of these monoids.Jones-Lawson's gauge inverse monoid,as an inverse submonoid of the polycyclic monoid,is the prototype in our development line.The generalization leads also to Meakin-Sapir type results involving bijections between special congruences and special wide inverse submonoids.