Vat vs Vatu - What's the difference?
vat | vatu |
A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
(Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
(dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States. (The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons.)
To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.
The national currency of Vanuatu.
* 1998 , Ademuni Odeke, Bareboat Charter (Ship) Registration ,
* 2000 , , IMF Staff Country Report 00/129 Vanuatu - Recent Economic Developments ,
* 2007 , Island States: Small Island States Handbook , Volume 1: Development Strategy and Programs, International Business Publications, USA,
As nouns the difference between vat and vatu
is that vat is ford while vatu is the national currency of vanuatu.vat
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(wikipedia vatu)Noun
(en noun)page 355,
- The unit of currency is the vatu'' (VUV) with no minor unit. There are coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 50 and 100 vatu''', and notes of 100, 500, 1,000 and 5,000 '''vatu'''. In March 1996 UK£1 = 172 '''vatu'''; US$1 = 113 '''vatu''' and DM1 = 76.38 ' vatu .
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- In November 1998 the Reserve Bank reintroduced the SRD[Statutory Reserve Deposit] at the rate of 10 percent on vatu deposits and reduced the PRA[Prescribed Reserve Asset] to 6 percent.
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- One estimate in 2007 for the total value of cattle heads sold was 135 million vatu ; cattle were first introduced into the area from Australia by British planter James Paddon.