cruzado

American  

[kroo-zey-doh, kroo-zah-doo] / kruˈzeɪ doʊ, kruˈzɑ dʊ /

noun

• cruzadoes,
  plural
• cruzados
  plural

1. crusado.

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cruzado British  

/ kruˈzɑːdu, kruːˈzeɪdəʊ /

noun

1. a former standard monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro

2. another name for crusado

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cruzadoes
  plural
• cruzados
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cruzado

C16: literally marked with a cross, from cruzar to bear a cross; see _crusade

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cruzado cruzadoes cruzados

Beginning last February, he braked an inflation rate that had been nearing 250% by freezing prices and introducing a new currency called the cruzado.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cruzado novo was replaced by the cruzeiro, Brazil's fourth currency in four years.

From Time Magazine Archive

And to cement his reform, Collor replaced Brazil's latest currency, the new cruzado, with the cruzeiro, at a rate of 1 to 1.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also a coin equal to two Spanish reals or twenty Portuguese reis, or ten of which made a cruzado.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Duarte Barbosa

If one, by cheating and roguery, gains a cruzado in the presence of another, the latter instantly says, “I cry halves,” and if the first refuse he is instantly threatened with an information. 

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow

De Castro, eager to get rid of his foes at any price, offered six hundred thousand cruzadoes.

From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Charles Morris

It would, however, have been impossible for the French to maintain themselves in Rio; therefore Duguay Trouin, after refreshing his people, ransomed the city for 600,000 cruzadoes.

From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham

They typically convert their currency -- pesos, cruzados or australes -- into U.S. dollars, because they are a better store of value.

From Time Magazine Archive

Companies were allowed to trade impounded cruzados for negotiable cruzeiros by using them to pay taxes and debts.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gave him also a hundred cruzados and a hundred testoons, besides the payment due to him, and goods and other presents, so that the honest broker departed highly pleased.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston

Grana costs five or six cruzados per codo at Goa, and even seven and eight.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

Some of the gilded beds are generally sold for three or four hundred cruzados.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson