cruzeiro
Americannoun
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cruzeiros
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cruzeiro
1925–30; < Portuguese, equivalent to cruz cross + -eiro < Latin -ārius -ary
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Prime reason for this is inflation: Argentina's peso is now worth only one-eighth what it was five years ago, and Brazil's cruzeiro has dropped by two-thirds in less than two years.
From Time Magazine Archive
That the new cruzeiro system would bring immediate relief seemed dubious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only gradually will the new 10, 20 and 50 centavo pieces, the new, uniform-size cruzeiro bills supplant the timeworn milreis.
From Time Magazine Archive
That chronic invalid, the Brazilian cruzeiro, lost another 31.8% of its value in 1966, and thus would pay for only 2% of the goods and services it could command a decade ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brazil, in a rare show of Latin independence, made a devaluation that leaves the cruzeiro worth 3% more in dollars than at the start of last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
A 12-year-old boy who accurately computed the price of four coconuts at 35 cruzeiros each was later given the problem on paper.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2014
Companies were allowed to trade impounded cruzados for negotiable cruzeiros by using them to pay taxes and debts.
From Time Magazine Archive
All over the world, English-language newspapers comfort American tourists, help teach native students and rake in local advertisers' bahts, cruzeiros, dinars, pesos, rupees and yen.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Joao Goulart has just signed a decree doubling the monthly minimum wage for urban Brazilian workers to 42,000 cruzeiros, which is $68 on the official exchange rate and about $30 in actual buying power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hundreds of thousands of cruzeiros changed hands nightly under, and surrounded by those flags.
From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Douglas (Douglas N.) Hay
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