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euro | euroize |

As a noun euro

is euro.

As a verb euroize is

to adopt the euro as official currency, or to link one's currency to the euro.

euro

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia euro) The name euro was the winner of a contest open to the general public to propose names for the new European currency, and as such is technically a neologism, although it obviously alludes to the common root of geographical names for the continent Europe, derived from (etyl) Europa, from (etyl) , the name in Greek mythology of a princess, abducted by Zeus as a bull across the Bosphorus.

Alternative forms

* Euro

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The currency unit of the European Monetary Union]. Symbol: [[€]
  • A coin with a face value of 1 euro.
  • An abbreviation for European in any sense; e.g. "euro size"; "euro style pad".
    • Usage notes
    * The plural recommended for use in official' European documents written in English has been '''euro''' for some time, but this recommendation has been amended to ' euros .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) yuru, (thuru).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • , a wallaroo (macropod species).
    • See also
    * joey * kangaroo * macropod * marsupial * wallaby

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    euroize

    English

    Verb

    (euroiz)
  • To adopt the euro as official currency, or to link one's currency to the euro.
  • * 2004 , Feige and Dean, Dollarization and Euroization in Transition Countries: Currency Substitution, Asset Substitution, Network Externalities, and Irreversibility'', chapter in ''Monetary Unions and Hard Pegs :
  • *:Finally, we examine factors leading some transition countries to euroize officially and bilaterally, and others to euroize unilaterally - that is, without prior sanction by the EMU.

    • Derived terms

    * euroization