What's the difference between currency and peseta?
Currency
Definition:
(n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
(n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
(n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
(n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.
(n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(2) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(3) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
(4) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
(5) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(6) That was what the earlier debate over “currency wars” – when emerging markets complained about being inundated by financial inflows from the US – was all about.
(7) The initial impact was felt on the local currency market where a shortage of foreign exchange caused a looming crisis.
(8) Single-currency membership has no bearing on the foreign policy post.
(9) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(10) This deal also promotes the separation of the single market and single currency – a British objective for many years that would have been unthinkable in the Maastricht era.
(11) Investors recognised the true horror of Europe’s toxic bank debts, and the restrictions imposed by the single currency.
(12) But he added: “It’s also true that extremely low oil prices, adverse changes in currency rates, and a further decline in power prices are having a significant effect on our business.” Tony Cocker, the chief executive of E.ON UK, said milder weather and improved energy efficiency in British homes were behind the fall in power use, hitting sales.
(13) It announced that it would phase out the dual currency system.
(14) It is one of six banks involved in talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over alleged rigging in currency markets and Ross McEwan, marking a year as RBS boss, also pointed to a string of other risks in a third quarter trading update.
(15) Spain was the worst hit of the currency bloc's major economies with a 0.8% drop in industrial production.
(16) But Frank argues the disastrous attempt at curbing markets through currency reform in 2009 has shown the cost of turning back from change.
(17) The survey also found that Osborne's currency union veto made 30% more likely to vote no with only 13% more inclined to vote yes.
(18) Eurozone leaders ooze confidence that Greece’s financial collapse could be easily weathered by the rest of the currency bloc.
(19) But persistent falls in the currency’s value during December towards the previous low point has increased the cost of imported goods and forced businesses to say that price rises are in the pipeline.
(20) Updated at 2.48pm GMT 1.42pm GMT Another question riffing off Britain's EU referendum - how will Europe draw up new structures such as co-ordinated banking supervision when some members of the EU are refusing to ever join the single currency?
Peseta
Definition:
(n.) A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 95 projects out of the 270 analysed produced no papers; the other 175 projects yielded 471 articles (2.7 per project); the mean cost of each article was 1.1 million pesetas, or 0.8 million if only the productive projects were considered.
(2) The costs of EFN for the patients with solid tumors is situated between 236,000-377,000 pesetas according to hospitalary centers.
(3) By regression analysis, it is also possible to predict a decrease of 0.065 points in perinatal mortality for every additional 1000 pesetas in the family income available per capita.
(4) For patients with acute leukemia the value was estimated as between 391,000-667,000 pesetas.
(5) However, in the latter Group, there was an average additional weight loss of 4 kg per patient, and an increase in cost effectiveness ratio of 573 pesetas in weight gained in Group B compared to Group A.
(6) Governmental figures from 1989 show that in the Autonomic Region of Andalucia, with a population of 7 million inhabitants, more than three hundred billion pesetas (approximately UK pounds 1,500 million) were spent during 1988 gambling in casinos, slot machines and at bingo.
(7) These papers reached a total of 818,709 impact factor units; the mean cost of the impact factor unit is 660,796 pesetas, or 459,626 pesetas if only productive projects are considered.
(8) The total number of work absence days was 5.291 with a mean 101.7 days per patient and with an accumulated cost in this respect of 49.053.151 pesetas.
(9) The total economic cost was 30.724.962 pesetas with a mean patient cost of 287.149 pesetas.
(10) The overall expense were 946,540 pesetas, with a mean expense per session and interconsultation of 6,352.6 pesetas.
(11) The mean cost of an influenza case amounted to 69,295 pesetas.
(12) In the case of a MIR-R1, the cost of vaccination without previous screening is 12,492 pesetas, with the cost for a staff doctor being 15,092 pesetas.
(13) Costs and future profits are presented in pesetas for 1990 and rates of social discounts of 4% and 7% are applied actualizing the same.
(14) If all these economies devalue by say 30% on their way back to the peseta, lira, escudo, etc, these banks would suffer €400bn of losses – and these would be final, definitive losses.
(15) We have calculated the mean annual cost (MAC) referred to 1,988 pesetas derived from the treatment and surveillance of 15 patients diagnosed of non terminal chronic renal failure (NT-CRF).
(16) Most families were found to spend less than 1000 pesetas per month.
(17) One of the methods used by the UK to get out of its slump is by engineering a posh version of a peseta crisis.
(18) Thirteen long years: Atlético have not beaten Real since 1999, when the peseta was still legal currency.
(19) The socioeconomic impact estimated was situated between 95,000 and 124,000 millions of pesetas according to the different hypothesis adopted in the analysis of sensitivity.
(20) The significant association between FSUO and spring and winter (84.62%); relation male: female = 5.5: 1; mean age = 42.57 years; decade distributions = 1st decade 0%, second = 1.28%, third = 11.64%, fourth = 35.90%, fifth = 24.36%, sixth = 16.67%, seventh = 8.97%, eighth = 1.28%, ninth = 0%; mean admission time = 14.12 days; total hospital cost of out-patients presentation = 15.087.370 pesetas.