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birr

[bur] / bɜr /












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The birr was this week trading at 90 to $1 on the black market, compared to 53 in banks.

From Reuters • Oct. 15, 2022

His bail was set at 60,000 Ethiopian birr, about $1,170, according to his lawyer.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022

"Last year, for $1 you would get 35 birr, now you get 45."

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2021

He added that citizens who receive remittances are “expected to convert their foreign currency into birr right away.”

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2019

Sabbath morning it was French, which he went through with great birr.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest