Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large ginger-cake.
- noun A gold, and also a silver, coin of Venezuela, worth about 19 cents.
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- noun The currency of
Venezuela .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the basic unit of money in Venezuela; equal to 100 centimos
- noun Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825 (1783-1830)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bolivar is now worth about one-ninth what it was then, relative to the dollar (which, of course, has also declined in value).
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With Venezuelan crude oil around $80 per barrel, the local currency known as the bolivar ought to be strong.
Desperado 2008
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With Venezuelan crude oil around $80 per barrel, the local currency known as the bolivar ought to be strong.
Desperado 2008
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Rica, some from Columbia, and so making sure we can pay those bills with a currency other than the bolivar is the challenge
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Mattel Inc. and Clorox Co. in earnings calls also bemoaned the bolivar's decline.
Venezuela Roils Multinationals Dana Mattioli 2011
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Diageo PLC has been pegging the prices of its premium spirits to dollar equivalents and introducing less-expensive brands into Venezuela as the bolivar devalues, Diageo executives said in an interview last month.
Venezuela Roils Multinationals Dana Mattioli 2011
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The minimum wage in 2009 was 880 bolivares (the currency was devalued by a factor of 1000 a few years ago); the bolivar has since been devalued by half.
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For the company's first half, the weaker bolivar had a negative impact of £211 million $343 million.
Venezuela Roils Multinationals Dana Mattioli 2011
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The devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar cut sales by $11.4 million.
Revlon Profit Soars as Sales Improve Melissa Korn 2011
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In December, the company wrote the plants off as discontinued operations, taking a $329 million charge related to the write-off as well as to the devalued bolivar, she aid.
Venezuela Roils Multinationals Dana Mattioli 2011
hernesheir commented on the word bolivar
It's a cake.
December 14, 2013