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cedi

cedi

1 9.4
The money used in Ghana that is equal to 100 pesewas
  • noun
  • /ˈsɛdi/
: cedi
  • The price of a loaf of bread is now about 5 cedi.

Examples

  • If the drug was in stock, each gram would cost 24,000 cedi (5,000 cedi is about £0.50).

    Academic text (2001)
  • The other does—1g of the drug costs 35,000 cedi, making a minimum cost to the parents of over 250,000 cedi.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The level to which the cedi has fallen appears to exceed that necessary to offset inflation.

    Academic text (1991)
  • A new patient must give 100,000 cedi to the hospital on admission.

    Academic text (2001)
  • If it costs fifteen cedis to visit a village to collect ten-cedi payments, it makes far more sense to do this if there are ten borrowers in the village rather than one.

    Blog text (6)
  • For a village farming family that grows crops and tends livestock for a subsistence living, and which has already spent 100,000 cedi for the privilege of occupying a bed at Komfo Anokye, this further sum of money may well be far out of their reach.

    Academic text (2001)
  • He saved up 200 cedi to buy a new smartphone.

  • Prices in the market are usually displayed in cedi.

Surface Forms

cedi singular
cedis plural

Etymology

Cedi comes from the Akan word sidi, which means 'cowrie shell' and was once used as 'money' in West Africa. So Ghana's modern cedi is named for those shells and keeps the old word for 'money'.