cruzado

[ kroo-zey-doh; Portuguese kroo-zah-doo ]

noun

, plural cru·za·does, cru·za·dos.

1. crusado.

cruzado

/ kruˈzɑːdu; kruːˈzeɪdəʊ /

noun

1. a former standard monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro
2. another name for crusado

Word History and Origins

Origin of cruzado¹

C16: literally marked with a cross, from cruzar to bear a cross; see crusade

Example Sentences

Los Bravos de Atlanta colocaron al jardinero Ronald Acuña Jr. en la lista de lesionados de 10 días luego que el reinante Jugador Más Valioso de la Liga Nacional se rompió el ligamento cruzado de la rodilla izquierda para perderse el resto de la temporada.

From Los Angeles Times

The militias, which formed in the late 1980s to stop drug traffickers’ expansion, moved into land-grabbing and real estate more recently and control over half the territory in Rio’s metro region, according to a 2022 study from the Federal Fluminense University and the Fogo Cruzado Institute.

From Seattle Times

Residents of the communities started hearing shootouts soon after dawn, according to Fogo Cruzado, a nonprofit organization that provides real-time reporting of gun violence.

From Seattle Times

Otro flujo significativo de nicaragüenses también ha cruzado a Costa Rica y, combinado con los que se dirigen al norte, ha provocado que alrededor del 10 por ciento de la población de Nicaragua haya abandonado el país en los últimos cuatro años, lo que subraya la falta de fe generalizada en el gobierno del presidente Daniel Ortega.

From New York Times

Carlos Cruzado, a tax expert and the president of Gestha, the tax authority technicians’ union, said prosecutors had already taken this into account as a remedy when they asked for an eight-year prison sentence.

From New York Times