valuta
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of valuta
1915–20; < Italian < Vulgar Latin *valūta, for Latin valīta, feminine past participle of Latin valēre to be worth
Example Sentences
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Torgsin sells only for "valuta," a pre-War Russian word meaning "foreign money."
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Britain's move turned this prized valuta into crisp, imposing, worthless souvenirs.
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The State desperately needs valuta to purchase abroad machinery for the Five-Year Plan.
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What all of us, from the Thuringian Forest to Sheboygan, must realize is that to survive we need, along with armor, A-bombs and valuta, sisu.
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They are no good to them since they can't buy anything with them, and they don't dare fool around with valuta, as the G. P. U. is very suspicious over any Russian possessing foreign money.
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