noun Download 🔗Share A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real. Examples : "The pirate captain demanded payment of fifty piastres for the captured ship. " history economy finance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada. Examples : ""Before Canada adopted the dollar, people in Quebec often used piastre to refer to their money." " world history economy finance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina. Examples : "Before Vietnam adopted the dong, people used piastre for buying things at the market. " world economy finance history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Libya, South Sudan, Turkey and Cyprus Examples : "While bargaining at the market in Cairo, the vendor initially asked for 50 Egyptian pounds, but I managed to negotiate the price down to 40 pounds and 50 piastre. " economy finance world Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading