metical

[ met-i-kal; Portuguese me-ti-kahl ]

noun

, plural me·ti·cals, Portuguese me·ti·cais [me-ti-, kahysh].

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

Example Sentences

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

From Reuters

The government recently increased the price of fuel, after the value of the local currency – named metical – sunk against the dollar.

From The Guardian

“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 Wall Street Journal

Growth is still robust but the metical MZN= currency lost a third of its value in 2015 and another concern for investors is fighting between government forces and guerrillas in some parts of Mozambique.

From Reuters

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

From Project Gutenberg