cruzeiro
Americannoun
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cruzeiros
plural
noun
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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
In 31 months of Goulart, the value of the cruzeiro plummeted 83%, and the cost of living rose 340%.
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
The price index in Brazil has become almost like a clicking meter in a speeding taxicab, and the value of the cruzeiro against the dollar falls by 2% or 3% every week.
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Every extra cruzeiro is socked into time payments for autos, refrigerators, TV sets and other nonperishable inflation hedges that hold their value.
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
Encountering a fruit peddler on Copacabana Beach, he haggled the price of a few oranges down from 20 cruzeiros apiece to 12.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I came here four years ago," says William O. Kelleher, president of Sears, Roebuck in Brazil, "we were selling a 7-cu.-ft. refrigerator for 49,000 cruzeiros.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even so, people still deal in hundreds of cruzeiros for the most simple needs.
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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