hard currency
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Desperate for hard currency after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Castro reluctantly embraced tourism as a lifeline.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
But given the implosion of the island’s economy, the insolvent government is desperate for investment and hard currency.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
The government of the cash-strapped nation of 11 million people, which relies on tourism to bring in hard currency, had been hoping for 2.6 million arrivals.
From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026
“We could not buy spare parts for machinery, for example. They all had to be paid for in hard currency that we mostly couldn’t access,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
Low prices in recent years have kept down hard currency earnings from Benin's major exports of agricultural products and crude oil.
From The 1992 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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