Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See Table at currency.
Wiktionary
- n. The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €
- n. A coin with a facial value of 1 euro.
- n. A caucasoid.
- n. Macrobius robustus, a wallaroo (macropod species).
WordNet 3.0
- n. the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
Etymologies
- From Adnyamathanha yuru, thuru. (Wiktionary)
- After Europe . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mr. Goodhart points out that the term euro bond is used loosely and could describe many different operations.”
The Wall Street Journal: Euro Bonds Gain Momentum, With Limits
“In a letter to the Dutch EU presidency, the Lithuanian government insisted: "The non-inflective form of the term euro is unacceptable to the Lithuanian language.”
“For most of his term the euro has been a strong currency, at times reaching $1.60.”
“Bundchen said: "The story of the euro is a lie," she told the Brazilian newspaper O Globo in comments published Wednesday.”
“We asked one bookseller why prices were so high and he cited import costs and volume … cost the about the same to ship 1000 books as 5000, and have to spread that cost over fewer purchasers … also a lot of books come from the UK and the euro is almost 2.5 tmes higher than the kiwi.”
“A rather unintelligent fairy tale. 90% of euros in Germany ARE German euros, and the euro is the euro whether Juan Carlos I is on it or not.”
“It just can't be that the euro is as good as the dollar.”
“I'm not saying the euro is a cure-all but certainly it is constructive for the equity markets in the euro zone in our opinion.”
“The introduction of the euro is therefore a major opportunity for London.”
“ATHENS — The massive emergency fund assembled to defend the value of the euro is backed by a political gamble with an uncertain outcome: that European governments will rewrite a post-World War II social contract that has been generous to workers and retirees but has become increasingly unaffordable for an aging population.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘euro’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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currency
$$$
lek, shilling, farthing, penny, dollar, cent, pound, peso, euro, won, yen, yuan and 106 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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Australasian mammals
Australasian mammals, monotremes, anteater, duckbill, echidna, giant anteater, ornithorhynchus, platypus, porcupine, water mole, carnivorous marsu..., banded anteater and 220 more...
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Money
The various names for "money" have been scattered about the world in various countries and are now coming together at last in this hopefully vast list.
grosze, money, cash, dough, euro, grosz, zloty, toman, pood, pelf, krone, pesewa and 22 more...
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Andorra
Words pertaining to the insignificant European enclave.
co-principality, eastern pyrenees, el serrat, soldeu, andorra la vella, france, spain, barcelona, toulouse, coma pedrosa, valira river, alpine and 43 more...
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aliko's Words
deli, turkey, bodrum, deniz, sunny, seks, tatil, hava, zeeman, captain, kapitein, kaptan and 256 more...
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Australian Fauna
endemic species of terra australis
phascogale, wombat, ornithoryncus, wambenger, tuan, potoroo, platypus, echidna, bilby, bandicoot, antechinus, numbat and 101 more...
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Filthy Stinking Rich
Monetary units and other words that mean money. Other financial words are allowed too, as long as they're principally about money. Get it, principally? I kill me.
money, cash, dough, loot, wad, stack, booty, capital, nest egg, treasure, banknote, net and 168 more...
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100 Words / 17-32
diffident, enervate, enfranchise, epiphany, equinox, euro, evanescent, expurgate, facetious, fatuous, feckless, fiduciary and 4 more...
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100 Words Everyone Should Know, Accor...
this list appeared in many American newspapers in the fall of 2002.
abjure, abrogate, abstemious, acumen, antebellum, auspicious, belie, bellicose, bowdlerize, chicanery, chromosome, churlish and 88 more...
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braggadocio
an addendum or Anhang to Prolagus's list 'The braggadocio recipe'
amoeba, angina, antenna, aria, arnica, audio, aurora, biro, bronco, bubo, cafe, calico and 88 more...
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coining it
coin, banknote, money, cash, sterling, pound, nelsons, readies, fiver, baht, euro, penny and 40 more...
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100 Words That All High School Gradua...
reference
abjure, abrogate, abstemious, acumen, antebellum, auspicious, belie, bellicose, bowdlerize, chicanery, chromosome, churlish and 88 more...
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pouchy keen
Names of some of our non-placental animal friends
bandicoot, quoll, numbat, wombat, opossum, kangaroo, koala, bilby, wallaby, tasmanian devil, dunnart, mulgara and 59 more...
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paying your way
coins, paper, cards and more
penny, dime, quarter, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, nickel, coin, shekel, wampum, simolian, fen and 32 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for euro.
Prolagus "alt gr + e" on my Italian keyboard. Dec 3, 2008
sarra €€€€€€€€€
(altgr+4) Dec 3, 2008
bilby Bah, European Central Bank wins the image search. Dec 3, 2008
sionnach It's always been a quid a quoll in my neck of the woods. Pigs, on the other hand, cost a guinea. Dec 3, 2008
Prolagus Bilby, you can still tag it © and get royalties on Wordie PRO!... Dec 3, 2008
Prolagus Yaybob, the faq page and a look at my Wordie for dummies! might help you. Dec 3, 2008
sionnach Yaybob: The way to make a URL into a clickable link is
a href="URL here" label for target link /a, with the braces replaced by <> Dec 3, 2008
yaybob Thanks to sionnach for "a href="URL here" label for target link /a, with the braces replaced by <>" Dec 3, 2008
bilby Hey, it was ours first! The EU stole it! Dec 3, 2008
Prolagus Equals to 1.98 Australian marsupials. Dec 3, 2008
yaybob An alternate and little used meaning of the word euro is in reference to a macropodine marsupial pictured HERE
Dec 3, 2008