lira
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6.4
- noun
- /ˈlɪrə/
:
lira
- You will pay 20,000 lira to the bakers... and 10,000 to the court.
- Turkish lira
- 200 lira
- 50 lira
Investors were willing to own stocks, betting that a weaker lira would be good for exporters.
- Investors were willing to own stocks, betting that a weaker lira would be good for exporters.
- You got to sell it to the fixed rate to the government in their lira, in their local currency.
Examples
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In Turkey, you can buy a meal for just a few lira.
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Investors were willing to own stocks, betting that a weaker lira would be good for exporters.
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Here, give a lira to that girl for her help.
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Provided, please, that it does not cost me one lira more than our contract says.
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I'm sending every lira home.
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There would be no option but to pay 400 to 500 lira for this, and everyone would have to do it.
Academic text (1994) -
At today's exchange rate, 1.6 billion lira.
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The Syrian lira has been shedding its value relative to the dollar quite rapidly in recent years.
Academic text (1999) -
Someone reaches into a purse and fishes out a 200-lira coin.
Fiction book (2001) -
An attractive peasant girl, who has saved her lira, embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea.
Synonyms
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3.9
The official money used in Turkey
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7.0
Money used in Italy before the euro, replaced in 2002
Money that Malta used until 2008
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lira comes from the old Latin libra, which means 'scales' or 'balance' and is the same root as the star sign Libra. It began as a unit of weight and then the name of a coin, so lira now means a kind of money in Italy in the past and in Turkey today.