New Zealand dollar
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- noun
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dólar neozelandés
- Here in New Zealand, the 200 Duke is NZ$7,995.
Examples
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Last week, I exchanged my money for 100 New Zealand dollars before traveling to Auckland.
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I had no intentions of posting about Air New Zealand on my site today.
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Air New Zealand: The Airline With a Sense of Fun
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It has been reported that the city will spend 1.1 million New Zealand dollars ($900,000) on the celebration.
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The new Middle-Earth-inspired video goes along with Air New Zealand's promotion as "the airline of Middle Earth" in preparation for the release of the first "Hobbit" movie in just a few short weeks.
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Both Australian and New Zealand dollars were sitting on 1% gains while the peso, rand, and SEK rounded out the top five with around 0.80% gains.
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The price of the concert ticket was 150 New Zealand dollars, which I paid with cash.
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She saved up 300 New Zealand dollars to buy souvenirs from her trip to Wellington.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the currency of New Zealand' is directly and transparently composed from the place name 'New Zealand' plus the noun 'dollar', so a learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning. Proper-noun + currency-unit constructions are common cross-linguistically and follow regular compositional patterns, making this immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
The noun New Zealand dollar comes from New Zealand choosing the name dollar for its own bills and coins when it set up its modern money. So New Zealand dollar simply means 'the money used in New Zealand'.