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  • noun Plural form of cedi.

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Examples

  • No," he says, "You go to the constituency, you take 2,000 Ghana cedis, before you come back within three days it is gone.

    Ghana Lawmakers Propose Salary Increases as Anti-Corruption Effort 2011

  • The 2,000 Ghana cedis that the country's parliamentarians take home each month could buy you roundtrip airfare to London or Cape Town, or about $1,300 at a foreign exchange bureau.

    Ghana Lawmakers Propose Salary Increases as Anti-Corruption Effort 2011

  • Solomon rented a truck and drove the paste to the market in Bawku, but came back with only 140,000 cedis, the equivalent of about fourteen dollars.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Transactions at the market would be confusing, considering most items cost less than 10,000 cedis.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • How did she amass so many cedis while others carefully guarded every precious coin?

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • A small bag of clean drinking water, for example, cost 400 cedis in the north, or about four cents.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • How did she amass so many cedis while others carefully guarded every precious coin?

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • He was giving them 100,000 cedis or so from the project.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Solomon rented a truck and drove the paste to the market in Bawku, but came back with only 140,000 cedis, the equivalent of about fourteen dollars.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Where it once took 10,000 cedis to equal a U.S. dollar, the new currency would make it one for one.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

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