yen

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Dollar / yen edged lower in an inside range, as the yen was a passive ingredient for cross trading.

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  1. noun A strong desire or inclination; a yearning or craving.
  2. intransitive verb To have a strong desire or inclination; yearn.
  3. noun See Table at currency.

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  • For the quarter ending July 31, 2008, in Japanese yen terms, the equity part of the Fund had a negative 4. 77\% return while the TOPIX Index returned a negative 4. 01\%. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • So it generally tends to be only in periods when the currencies such as yen, a big currency like the yen, moves back significantly in a short period time and create a noteworthy gain or loss. —  Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • And that is because the API business, while the vast majority of the production is happening in Israeli shekel, they do transact their business in U.S. dollars, in the euro, in Japanese yen as well as shekel. —  Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • At June 30, 1998, Sun's international subsidiaries had uncom - mitted lines of credit aggregating approximately $694 million, of which approximately $7 million, denominated in Japanese yen, had been drawn. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Insult all u want but the yen is the strongest currency right now. we dont hav labor unions, we take pride in our work. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Chinese (Cantonese) uên, hope, wish, equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) yuàn.
  2. Japanese en, from Chinese (Mandarin) yuán, dollar.

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  1. Amerindian.
  2. Japanese, from Chinese yuen, round, a round thing, a dollar.
 

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