Definitions
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- noun The
monetary unit ofCambodia , equivalent to 100sen , and to 10kak . Symbol:៛
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rural banks like Acleda can gradually try to match loans and deposits with riel, which is used more widely in rural areas.
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Last month, regulators convened a public workshop to decide whether to denominate stock prices in riel, dollars or both.
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The director of Bak Touk primary school in Phnom Penh saidthe school had given its teachers permission to charge each pupil 500 riel (12 cents) per day, but claimed the suspended teachers regularly charged twice that amount.
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I buy one hundred grams for 500 riel (about 12 ½ cents).
Archive 2009-02-01 Will 2009
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Which is a lot for her no matter how you look at it, because every day she takes in a total of 6000 riel, just over a dollar and a half, without even accounting for initial cost of the snacks.
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Not only would riel listings add costs and confusion in a largely dollarized economy, it would create an additional risk for international investors, driving them away.
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I buy one hundred grams for 500 riel (about 12 ½ cents).
Notes from Will | To the Market Will 2009
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But Cambodians voted with their wallets, shunning the Cambodian riel and demanding dollars.
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Though the riel came back into circulation in 1979, people preferred to use the Thai baht initially and then, once international aid poured into the country in the early 1990s, the dollar.
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“Every day I have to pay 2000 riel to rent the bicycle, and 1000 more for the basket.”
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