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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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
That the new cruzeiro system would bring immediate relief seemed dubious.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cruzado novo was replaced by the cruzeiro, Brazil's fourth currency in four years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The cruzeiro currency, once skyrocketing toward its namesake Southern Cross, has started to level off, and the cost-of-living increase, Brazil's chronic bugaboo, has declined by 19% in the past year.
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
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
Late last week it took 568 cruzeiros to buy a dollar.
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 Hay, Douglas (Douglas N.)
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