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metical

American

[met-i-kal, me-ti-kahl] / ˈmɛt ɪˌkæl, mɛ tɪˈkɑl /

noun

plural

meticals,

plural

meticais

a brass coin and monetary unit of Mozambique, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the escudo in 1980.

Example Sentences

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When the full extent of the borrowing was revealed, donors cut off support to Mozambique and its currency, the metical, collapsed.

From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2021

“There’s no money in the market,” said Julio Sethy, who expanded his trucking business only to see demand plummet last year as Mozambique’s metical currency crashed.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2016

A thousand of them are worth a metical or gold dinar; and they string them by thousands, with a knot distinguishing the hundreds.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

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