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• Eurocurrency
  Eurocurrency

  noun

  funds deposited in the bank of a European country in the currency of another country.
• eurocurrency
  eurocurrency

  noun

  (sometimes capital)

Eurocurrency

American  

[yoor-oh-kur-uhn-see, ‑-kuhr‑, yur‑] / ˈjʊər oʊˌkɜr ən si, ‑ˌkʌr‑, ˈjɜr‑ /

noun

• Eurocurrencies
  plural

1. funds deposited in the bank of a European country in the currency of another country.

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eurocurrency British  

/ ˈjʊərəʊˌkʌrənsɪ /

noun

1. (sometimes capital)

   1. the currency of any country held on deposit in Europe outside its home market: used as a source of short- or medium-term finance, esp in international trade, because of easy convertibility

   2. ( as modifier )

      the eurocurrency market

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Eurocurrencies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Eurocurrency

Euro- ( def. ) + currency ( def. )

Example Sentences

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If Eurocurrency lending is regulated in London or Luxembourg, they say, it will only sail away to Singapore or Bahrain, where no controls are likely to be imposed.

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The non-Communist world may well evolve into two huge trading and currency areas, one based on Eurocurrency and the other based on the dollar.

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I am very encouraged that part of Volcker's approach is an attempt to deal also with the problems posed by the Eurocurrency market.

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OPEC'S leaders, ever fearful of placing too much money in any one country, prefer to keep their petrodollars in short-term Eurocurrency deposits free from the long arm of any government.

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For the longer term, the Common Market nations are slowly moving toward creating a Eurocurrency that would challenge the dominance of the dollar in world monetary affairs.

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If they simply borrowed, say, dollars in New York or pounds in London, they would be forced to pay stiffer rates than for Eurocurrencies.

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On the other side, worried government bankers agree with Guido Carli, former chief of Italy's central bank, that Eurocurrencies have become ''the root of all evil in the international monetary system.''

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British Novelist Margaret Drabble has described the Eurocurrencies as ''colorless, odorless, tasteless, unspendable money that passes in hieroglyphics through computers from one part of the globe to another.''

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