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paper money

纸币,钞票,纸钱,币

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : currency in paper form, such as government and bank notes, as distinguished from metal currency.

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Examples

  • Central banks like the US Federal Reserve are printing more paper money than ever.

  • As society accelerates into its digital future, the UK is taking steps to protect the centuries-old technology known as paper money.

  • She recounts that, as a currency, cowries “have circulated longer than any other single coin or paper money in history.”

  • With fewer people carrying paper money, and with some places no longer accepting it, we’ve become ever more reliant on electronic cash provided by commercial institutions, from PayPal to Visa.

  • Last year’s economics prize notably went to a team that tested to see which country’s paper money transmitted the most harmful bacteria.

  • And Epstein continues to steer money toward universities to advance scientific research.

  • Speech, in this case, is our ability to spend money on a goofy entertainment.

  • I suspect [Teresa] will get money sent in to her, so she can shop at the commissary.

  • If nobody on the outside will send Teresa money, should she learn a prison hustle?

  • She vowed to repay the money—no official word, however, on whether she ever did that.

  • Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • Bits of paper blew aimlessly about, wafted by a little, feverish breeze, which rose in spasms and died away.

  • The Spaniards since have substituted paper for the leaves of maize, in imitation of them.

  • If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.