D-mark

Or D-Mark

[dee-mahrk]

1. Deutsche mark.

D-mark

noun

1. short for (the former) Deutschmark

Example Sentences

Handelsblatt: I remember you saying many times, if the Germans keep the D-Mark we will make ourselves unpopular with the rest of the world; our banks and our currency would be the Number 1, all the other countries would be against us and that was why we should have the euro to embed us in a larger European undertaking.

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It’s all rather ironic, because people are saying that Germany has profited a great deal from the euro because the D-Mark has been kept down and this helps German exports …

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“I found queueing for oranges too embarrassing, but of course I took the 100 D-Mark.”

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Helmut Kohl made the Germans give up the D-mark for the euro.

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There are other scenarios: a split-level euro; a smaller eurozone of core countries, known to older readers as "the D-mark bloc"; and a not-so-small eurozone, minus – well, again in holiday spirit, we shall not mention names.

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