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Rupee   /rupˈi/   Listen
Rupee

noun
1.
The basic unit of money in Sri Lanka; equal to 100 cents.  Synonym: Sri Lanka rupee.
2.
The basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 cents.  Synonym: Seychelles rupee.
3.
The basic unit of money in Nepal; equal to 100 paisa.  Synonym: Nepalese rupee.
4.
The basic unit of money in Mauritius; equal to 100 cents.  Synonym: Mauritian rupee.
5.
The basic unit of money in Pakistan; equal to 100 paisa.  Synonym: Pakistani rupee.
6.
The basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise.  Synonym: Indian rupee.





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"Rupee" Quotes from Famous Books



... he saw the latter raise his head and glance at him meaningly. Then, with a slight movement of the hand, the monk pointed to the bottom of his bowl. Jack had taken a rupee from his pocket and stretched out his hand to drop it into the bowl. As he did so he glanced eagerly into the bronze vessel. A folded piece of white paper lay in the bottom of it. Jack dropped his coin and stretched out his hand ...
— Jack Haydon's Quest • John Finnemore
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... village of Vuchuwadi, near Tanjore, on the 28th of January 1832. His widowed mother was forced by poverty to remove with Mutuswamy and his brother to Tiruvarar, where the former learnt Tamil, and soon set to work under the village accountant at a monthly salary of one rupee. About this time he lost his mother, whose memory he cherished with reverence and affection to the last. His duty took him to the court-house of the tehsildar, Mr Naiken, who soon remarked his extraordinary intelligence and industry. There was an English school at Tiruvarar, where Mutuswamy ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
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... continued to modern times. When the Hon. Robert Lindsay went as Resident and Collector to Silhet about 1778, cowries constituted nearly the whole currency of the Province. The yearly revenue amounted to 250,000 rupees, and this was entirely paid in cowries at the rate of 5120 to the rupee. It required large warehouses to contain them, and when the year's collection was complete a large fleet of boats to transport them to Dacca. Before Lindsay's time it had been the custom to count the whole before embarking them! ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
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Words linked to "Rupee" :   Nepalese monetary unit, paisa, Seychelles monetary unit, Nepalese rupee, Mauritian monetary unit, cent, Sri Lankan monetary unit, Indian monetary unit, Pakistani monetary unit


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