escudo
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escudos
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a coin and monetary unit of Cape Verde, equal to 100 centavos.
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a former coin and monetary unit of Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.
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a former paper money and monetary unit of Chile, equal to 100 condors or 1000 pesos, replaced by the new peso in 1975.
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any of various former gold coins of Spain, Spanish America, and Portugal.
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a former silver coin of Spain, discontinued in 1868.
noun
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the standard monetary unit of Cape Verde, divided into 100 centavos
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the former standard monetary unit of Portugal, divided into 100 centavos; replaced by the euro in 2002
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a former monetary unit of Chile, divided into 100 centesimos
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an old Spanish silver coin worth 10 reals
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Etymology
Origin of escudo
1815–25; < Spanish: shield < Latin scūtum
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The Latin American spiral is largely the result of instability in the peso, escudo or cruzeiro, which in turn increases import prices and wrecks wage levels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Draconian measures such as the summary execution of black marketeers, an across-the-board freeze on wages and the drastic devaluation of the escudo have stabilized prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her currency unit, the escudo, was steady at four U.S. cents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anxiously Madrid foresaw that Portugal, by letting her escudo slide with sterling, will be able to offer drink, etc. to thirsty Britons cheaper than Spain, whose peseta is semi-stabilized on a gold basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Economic policy in 1993 focused on reducing inflationary pressures by lowering the fiscal deficit, maintaining a stable escudo, moderating wage increases, and encouraging increased competition.
From The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Vendors have recently taken to marketing them as match-day scarves, while in Spanish they are labeled, more lyrically, bufandas con los dos escudos, or scarves with two shields.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2015
Nobody wants their 10,000-euro nest egg to be suddenly turned into 10,000 much-less-valuable new escudos.
From Slate ● May 17, 2012
Owing euros to depositors, and getting devalued drachmas, or lira, or escudos or pesetas from borrowers is one way to make capital vanish.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2011
The plan applies to those making less than $434 a month in greatly inflated escudos, and will be formulated on a sliding scale favoring the lowest-paid workers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The local railway chief was more than anxious to see us off, as I added another five to the five escudos already given.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Austin Bidwell
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