cordoba

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The money used in Nicaragua, divided into 100 centavos

noun
/kɔrˈdoʊbə/

: córdoba

The price of the book was 250 cordobas, which was quite affordable.
devalued córdobas
gold córdoba

Examples

I exchanged 100 U.S. dollars for over 3,500 cordobas at the bank.
My most important job was to wake up each morning before dawn and change the day's money from U.S. dollars into worthless Nicaraguan cordobas.

Academic text (2007)
Each time I'd walk away with a shopping bag of cordobas—bills that doubled as toilet paper.

Academic text (2007)
After saving for months, I finally had enough cordobas to buy a new bicycle.

Surface Forms

cordoba singular

cordobas plural

Etymology

The word cordoba comes from the name of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, a Spanish leader who helped found Nicaragua, so the country's money was named after him. That's why cordoba now means the basic unit of Nicaraguan currency.