EURO

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies

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Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("euro" is a kind of...):

monetary unit (a unit of money)

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