riel
noun
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
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riel
1 American
[reel, ree-el]
/ ril, riˈɛl /
noun
Riel
2
American
[ree-el]
/ riˈɛl /
noun
Riel
1
British
/ riːˈɛl /
noun
riel
2
British
/ ˈriːəl /
noun
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She juggled dollars and brightly colored riel at tiny cash-only operations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
Baird says that the riel may become threatened in the Mekong as dams are built.
From Nature ● Oct. 19, 2011
In August she was convicted of defaming the prime minister and fined 16.5 million riel, or about $4,000, which she has refused to pay.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2010
The black-market rate for the riel is triple the official rate of 55 to a dollar.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the man accepts a few sheets of riel from the storefront owner, the boy shovels the garbage onto the cart.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
Barrister Riel Karmy-Jones KC, for the prosecution, told the jury that the women said his personality changed "from charming to frightening to nasty" during the alleged attacks.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
John Riel Casimero, who took the WBO bantamweight belt from Tete in November 2019, said he was "shocked" and "heartbroken" over his death.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
The chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, Riel Karmy-Jones, has said the anti-jury proposal sends “a wrecking ball” through the British system of justice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Massoud also pauses at a monument to Louis Riel, a 19th-century Canadian revolutionary of Franco-Chipewyan Métis descent, who was executed in 1885 for leading an Indigenous rebellion for civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
Riel, under the combined influence of his interlocutors and the demand which had been made upon him by the Canadian forces, displayed the better part of valour, and promptly released the captives.
From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by John Charles Dent
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