单词 | rupiah |
释义 | rupiahn. Originally, in the former Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia: a small silver coin. In later use: the principal monetary unit of Indonesia, equal to 100 sen (sen n.2). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > specific Oceanic piastre1844 rupiah1914 pataca1928 kip1955 riel1956 kina1974 toea1974 1914 A. S. Walcott Java & her Neighbours ii. 47 Drivers, porters, and coolies generally speak of the guilder as a ‘rupiah’ and of a half-guilder as a ‘stengah’. 1920 H. M. Rideout Foot-path Way i. ii. 10 A good bag of those rupiah the captain spoke of; many more than my cows are worth. 1947 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 307/2 The new Indonesian republic on Oct. 30 [1946] began the issue of its own currency, the rupiah, and on Dec. 1 declared its value to be 1·9 per U.S. dollar. 1952 Ann. Reg. 1951 iii. 335 The estimated deficit in the Budget was reduced to Rupiahs 987 million. 1959 ‘M. Derby’ Tigress iv. 154 Traders..preferred to sell..in free markets for honest currency instead of government controlled prices in semi-worthless Indonesian rupiahs. 1977 Time 16 May 14/1 You start dropping in 10,000-rupiah ($24) notes until he says that's enough and closes the drawer. 2008 Daily Tel. 3 June 18/5 An Indonesian businessman threw 100 million rupiah..in bank notes to a crowd waiting in a soccer stadium in Serang city,..to promote his motivational book. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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