metical

[met-i-kal, me-ti-kahl]

noun

plural

meticals ,

plural

meticais .

1. a brass coin and monetary unit of Mozambique, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the escudo in 1980.

Example Sentences

When the full extent of the borrowing was revealed, donors cut off support to Mozambique and its currency, the metical, collapsed.

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The government recently increased the price of fuel, after the value of the local currency – named metical – sunk against the dollar.

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“There’s no money in the market,” said Julio Sethy, who expanded his trucking business only to see demand plummet last year as Mozambique’s metical currency crashed.

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Growth is still robust but the metical MZN= currency lost a third of its value in 2015 and another concern for investors is fighting between government forces and guerrillas in some parts of Mozambique.

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A thousand of them are worth a metical or gold dinar; and they string them by thousands, with a knot distinguishing the hundreds.

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