ruble
or rou·ble
a silver or copper-alloy coin and monetary unit of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, equal to 100 kopecks.
Origin of ruble
1Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use ruble in a sentence
In just a few hours on Tuesday, the dollar exchange rate collapsed from 64 to 80 rubles before climbing back to about 68.
Just a few months ago, an average chicken cost 110 rubles per kilo and Monday it is 130 rubles.
At currency auctions, it traded at around 64.45 rubles to the dollar and 78.8 to the euro.
That tends to encourage large and small holders alike to consider turning their weakened rubles into other currencies.
It raises inflation, since you need more rubles to buy imports.
A sum under five rubles receives no interest—is merely saved and kept—which is, however, no slight benefit to the poor peasant.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 | VariousCost you five thousand rubles to cross, mister, Charon called in a thick voice.
Satan and the Comrades | Ralph BennittLook at the gold and jewels he tossed to the clerk, several million dolI mean, several billion rubles.
Satan and the Comrades | Ralph BennittAt last it went so far that Nekhliudof was in for more than five hundred rubles.
A Russian Proprietor | Lyof N. TolstoiI pawned the watch for a hundred rubles, and carried him the ticket.
A Russian Proprietor | Lyof N. Tolstoi
British Dictionary definitions for ruble
/ (ˈruːbəl) /
a variant spelling of rouble
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse