| 释义 |
Definition of gourde in English: gourdenoun ɡʊədɡo͝ord The basic monetary unit of Haiti, equal to 100 centimes. Example sentencesExamples - As we're leaving he asks for 500 gourdes.
- First, the warehousemen's union was recently informed that a job that normally pays 10,000 gourdes would henceforth pay 2,000 gourdes.
- Conditions for the masses continue to deteriorate, with the value of the national currency, the gourde, falling from 15 to the dollar in 1996 to 24 to the dollar today.
- So his father sold one of his plots to raise the 5,000 gourdes fare for him.
- Some of the migrants want to make a new home in a place with steady work, and some stay only for a few weeks, just long enough to take back 800 or 1,000 gourdes.
Origin The Franco-American name for a dollar. Definition of gourde in US English: gourdenounɡo͝ord The basic monetary unit of Haiti, equal to 100 centimes. Example sentencesExamples - As we're leaving he asks for 500 gourdes.
- Conditions for the masses continue to deteriorate, with the value of the national currency, the gourde, falling from 15 to the dollar in 1996 to 24 to the dollar today.
- Some of the migrants want to make a new home in a place with steady work, and some stay only for a few weeks, just long enough to take back 800 or 1,000 gourdes.
- First, the warehousemen's union was recently informed that a job that normally pays 10,000 gourdes would henceforth pay 2,000 gourdes.
- So his father sold one of his plots to raise the 5,000 gourdes fare for him.
Origin The Franco-American name for a dollar. |