gourde
noun
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Definition of gourde
the basic monetary unit of Haiti — see Money Table
Examples of gourde in a Sentence
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Jean Claude collects dollars from someone in Miami looking to send money home to Haiti, and Acela delivers gourdes to their relatives in Port-de-Paix. — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, "Downstream," 10 June 2019 To pad what can otherwise be thin margins, Acela has honed a kind of exchange-rate arbitrage, hoarding gourdes from purchases at the depot until the dollar weakens. — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, "Downstream," 10 June 2019 An hourlong surf lesson costs between 8 and 15 US dollars, much more than Haiti’s daily minimum wage of 290 gourdes ($4.55) for eight hours of work in hotels, restaurants and agriculture. — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, "In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost," 4 Dec. 2017 The amount — 10,000 gourdes or $159 annually, depending on the exchange rate — was also being required of Haitians living abroad. — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, "Violent protest erupt in Haiti over budget passed on the eve of Hurricane Irma," 12 Sep. 2017 Once the poles were in place, the plan was to pay an off-duty state electrician 15,000 gourdes ($220) to connect people to the grid by siphoning power from a customer who lived down the hill. — Michelle W., Longreads, "The Birth of a City, in Fits and Starts," 20 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gourde.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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