rupee
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3.1
- noun
- /ruːˈpiː/
- Indian
:
rupia
- I give you 100 rupees for this monkey.
- billion rupees
- million rupees
- hundred rupees
They have gold to back every rupee, every rupee.
- They have gold to back every rupee, every rupee.
- I was like, I don't have any money, I'm leaving, my rupees are gone.
- So the yen, the rupee, the dollar, the peso, all fake.
- OK, whatever Hong Kong money is HKDS rupees.
- We couldn't sell it because our our rupee stock didn't convert because of Indian regulations that say we want you to sell it through the Bombay exchange.
- So they have like yen, rupee, penny looney which is a type of coin in Canada.
Examples
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He paid the bus fare with a fifty rupee note.
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A generous offer to pay in rupees found them a fairly reasonable hotel.
Fiction book (1993) -
Normally the rent takes four hundred rupees for a month.
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Two hundred and eight rupees, please.
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I'll give you two rupees.
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Yes, a room was available for 150 rupees, about 9 dollars a night.
Fiction book (1993) -
He spent every rupee of the king's fortune feeding the poor.
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That is why they cost 10,000 rupees each.
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I borrowed three hundred rupees from a barman at a place on Park Street.
Fiction book (1995) -
Prior to June 1966, the rupee-dollar exchange rate was 4.76 rupees per dollar.
Academic text (1994)
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word rupee comes from the Hindi rupiya and the Sanskrit rūpya, which means 'made of silver' or 'a silver coin'. So, rupee originally named a silver coin, and that is why it is now the name of the money in several South Asian countries.