Grenada dollar
- noun
- Archaic
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dólar de Granada
- Before the East Caribbean dollar was introduced, people used the Grenada dollar for daily transactions.
Examples
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The museum displayed a rare Grenada dollar from the early twentieth century.
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Collectors often seek out old Grenada dollars as valuable pieces of numismatic history.
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The Grenada dollar was replaced by the East Caribbean dollar.
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I had many Grenada dollars before the change.
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Before the East Caribbean dollar was introduced, people used the Grenada dollar for daily transactions.
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I had many Grenada dollars before the change to the East Caribbean dollar.
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Collectors often seek out old Grenada dollars as valuable pieces of numismatic history.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining the country name 'Grenada' with the noun 'dollar' — a B1 learner who knows both words will understand this denotes the currency used in Grenada. Country+currency compounds are a common, cross-linguistic and transparent compositional pattern in English, so the expression should be immediately comprehensible to learners.
Etymology
Grenada dollar comes from the island's own dollar coins and notes that people used in markets and shops. So, it refers to the island's 'basic unit of money' that people used before the East Caribbean dollar.
