Ecu

Word ECU
Character 3
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Definitions and meanings of "Ecu"

What do we mean by ecu?

The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro.

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The word "ecu" in example sentences

Each currency was pegged to an artificial currency unit known as the ecu, the predecessor of the euro. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I let my buddy drive my 96 LSC to get lunch for himself, his car is in the shop getting some kind of ecu work done (2006 sti). ❋ Unknown (2010)

On air, Colbert has chided the pope as an "ecu-menace" for his outreach to other faiths, referred to non-Catholics as "heathens and the excommunicated" and calls those who believe in evolution "monkey men." ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

In 1726, Joseph Bonnier's careful and frugal father died, leaving his twenty-four-year-old son with a fortune worth ten billion francs and a governmental position which paid, possibly unofficially, one hundred thousand écu, or five or six hundred thousand livres (an ecu, just before the Revolution, being equivalent to about $25 in 2006). ❋ Heather McDougal (2008)

An “ecu” is also the name of the gold or silver coins that were used in France starting with the reign of Louis IX in 1266, so that was an easy name for French people to remember when they learned they would be forced to give up their beloved French francs. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

A police car approached and Gillette eased to a quick walk, keeping his head under the umbrella he'd found in the computer analysis lab at ecu. ❋ ISCARS (2010)

Germans thought ecu sounded too much like Kuh, German for “cow,” likely to lead to such wordplay as “cash cow” and “curdling the currency.” ❋ William Safire (2003)

But the French preferred the ecu, acronym for the European Currency Unit and an old silver French coin, similar to the English crown. ❋ William Safire (2003)

An ecu would buy a very fine meal indeed, but then Radnor would expect information in return. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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