kina
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- noun
- /ˈkiːnə/
- Many businesses allowed time off to their employees or even closed for the entire day to allow them to vote, resulting in a loss of sales; one Port Moresby business claimed a net loss of some 200,000 kina (US$61,000) (Pacific Islands Report 2017b).
Examples
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Performed by Shoukichi Kina
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Each strip represents an item of value, such as a pig or Kina shell, that has been given away.
Academic text (1994) -
After Cyclone Kina, the roads were all trashed.
Blog text (15) -
Moreover, John demanded 100 kina (then about $100) compensation.
Academic text (1997) -
Three measures Gordon's, one of vodka half of Kina Lillet, shake it over ice then add a thin slice of lemon peel.
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My really big goal this year is to make 1 million kina (about $200,000 US dollars) so I can take my dad to Hawaii to visit the university he went to, take my mum to Rome for a mass at the Vatican City, and have enough left to buy a house.
Blog text (8) -
In 1938, the Pyrsos publishing firm published these impressions in book form, Taxideuontas: Iaponia Kina (Prevelakis 20-21).
Academic text (1991) -
(♪ Shoukichi Kina and Champloose: Jing Jing)
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KINA GRANNIS:
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John received a payment of 500 kina for his work on the project.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kina comes from a local Papua New Guinea word kina for 'shell money', the small shells people once used like coins. That's why the modern kina is the country's money: its name remembers those old shells.