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kopeck
[ koh-pek ]
noun
- an aluminum-bronze coin of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, one 100th of a ruble.
kopeck
/ ˈkəʊpɛk /
noun
- a monetary unit of Russia and Belarus worth one hundredth of a rouble: coins are still used as tokens for coin-operated machinery although the kopeck itself is virtually valueless
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Example Sentences
On the table beside the bed lay a silver watch and a silver twenty-kopeck piece.
The wedding gown alone cost every kopeck of fifty rubles, as the tailor's wife reported all over Polotzk.
At least, I never heard such talk in the market, when I went to buy a kopeck's worth of sunflower seeds.
How could one give away the last kopeck and arrive penniless in a strange land?
The money-box, in which the governess put away ten kopeck pieces and old stamps, was open.
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