The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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After she factors in the cost and labor of producing the beans, she makes only about 2 quetzales — about 25 cents — in profit per pound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
In Guatemala City, you’ll find the same bean for 45 quetzales — nearly $6 — a pound at a grocery store.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
The main witness in the case was a former banker, Ronald Giovanni García Navarijo, who told prosecutors that Mr. Zamora asked him to launder 300,000 Guatemalan quetzales, or nearly $40,000.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
At the Honduran border crossing of Corinto, where money-changers wave large wads of Guatemalan quetzales at deportees getting off yellow U.S. school buses, bored-looking police officers inspect the papers of those heading into Guatemala.
From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2014
Two days later Arbenz got Sierra Franco to produce another 100,000 quetzales "for emergency purposes," but the President fled to Mexican embassy asylum before he could take possession.
From Time Magazine Archive
