Guinea-Bissau peso
- noun
- Archaic
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peso de Guinea-Bisáu
- The Guinea-Bissau peso was the official currency of Guinea-Bissau until 1997.
Examples
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The Guinea-Bissau peso was replaced by the West African CFA franc in 1997.
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Banknotes of the Guinea-Bissau peso have become rare collector's items.
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Historians often mention the Guinea-Bissau peso when discussing the country's economic past.
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The Guinea-Bissau peso was replaced by the West African CFA franc.
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I had some old Guinea-Bissau pesos in my collection.
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After its independence, Guinea-Bissau adopted the Guinea-Bissau peso as its currency.
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Collectors are often interested in rare banknotes from the Guinea-Bissau peso era.
Synonyms
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A unit of money used in countries like Mexico and the Philippines
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase combines a country name with a well-known currency noun, so its meaning 'the currency of Guinea-Bissau' is directly derivable from the constituents. This country+currency naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard composition, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Guinea-Bissau peso combines the country name and the word peso, which in Spanish and Portuguese means 'weight' and later came to mean 'money'. So Guinea-Bissau peso simply names the country's old currency used from 1975 to 1997.