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Armenia's reaction to the devalued dram is being mirrored in Nagorno Karabakh, where the dram is also the national currency.

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  1. noun A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System equal to 1/16 of an ounce or 27.34 grains (1.77 grams).
  2. noun A unit of apothecary weight equal to 1/8 of an ounce or 60 grains (3.89 grams). See Table at measurement.
  3. noun A small draft: took a dram of brandy.

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  • "X." has entirely surrendered himself to his monomania of method, which to him has become a kind of dram-drinking. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2
  • YEREVAN (AP) Armenia's Central Bank on Tuesday said it will give up its defense for the dram, the national —  A1 HOME - Top Stories
  • The main causes of the appreciation of the dram are the global weakening of the U.S. dollar, a large inflow of foreign currency to Armenia from remittances, as well as increases in domestic productivity and incomes.
  • Armenia's reaction to the devalued dram is being mirrored in Nagorno Karabakh, where the dram is also the national currency. —  Armenianow
  • Whew!' says he, when the dram was down, 'there's three more minutes gone, an' that's three more dollars. —  Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
 

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  1. Middle English dragme, a drachma, a unit of weight, from Old French, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma; see drachma.
  2. Armenian, ultimately from Greek drakhmē; see drachma.

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  1. Now also spelled drachm, after the L. spelling; from Middle English drame, a dram (weight), from Old French drame, also spelled, in imitation of the L., dragme, drachme, modern F. drachme = Spanish dracma = Portuguese drachma = Italian dramma = Dutch drachma = German drachme = Danish drakme (cf. Danish dram in sense 4, from English) = Swedish drachma, from Latin drachma, Middle Latin also dragma, from Greek δραχμή, later also δραγμή, an Attic weight, a Grecian silver coin.
  2. from dram, n.
  3. dram, n.
 

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