para
noun
a coin and monetary unit of Macedonia and Serbia, one 100th of a dinar.
paras
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pluralof para.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“If I’m in this situation, how many other paras are on the brink?”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2021
I was discharged from the Army with the rank of lieutenant, and now I’m a reservist in the paras.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
More than two decades later, with no sign of "les paras" coming to Bozize's rescue, his political future looks uncertain.
From Reuters ● Jan. 7, 2013
For the first three days," said one of Lagaillarde's lieutenants last week, "officers and men from the paras came inside the barricades and drank beer with us.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later in the same year a finely-engraved set of three denominations, 10, 20, and 40 paras, was issued to commemorate the recapture on July 22, 1913, of the fortress of Adrianople after the Balkan War.
From The Postage Stamp in War by Fred. J. Melville
