What's the difference between dinar and lira?

Dinar


Definition:

  • (n.) A petty money of accounts of Persia.
  • (n.) An ancient gold coin of the East.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The regime has restricted individuals' cash withdrawals to 1,000 dinars a month – its calculation of the amount needed for daily living.
  • (2) A comparison and evaluation of a range of basic anatomic relationships underlying facial form in Angle Class I and Class II dolichocephalic, brachycephalic, mesocephalic, and dinaric types of headform.
  • (3) Any money she doesn’t use from her 10.5 Jordanian dinars (£10) of humanitarian assistance a month goes to them.
  • (4) Or [Libyan coastguards] will arrest me and take me to prison, and I will pay 500 dinar to get out.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoretti, carrying survivors of the boat that overturned off the coast of Libya, arrives at Catania on 20 April.
  • (5) The cost of a complete diagnostic process (on the first of April, 1986) was 5.717 dinars, which means that the cost of a diagnosed carcinoma was 307.765 dinars.
  • (6) They are only getting 40 dinars (£20) a night, and they are saying we don't want to do this dirty work any more."
  • (7) How can you expect a peshmerga with a 500,000-dinar salary to fight Isis while officials get far more benefits?
  • (8) A few paid as much as 7,000 dinars (about £3,500).
  • (9) Their photographs appeared at the end of a 23-minute video depicting his death, along with an offer of a bounty of 100 gold dinars (roughly $20,000) for each pilot killed.
  • (10) Both America and Iraq will succeed when every Arab government has an embassy open in Baghdad, and the child in Basra benefits from services provided by Iraqi dinars, not American tax dollars.
  • (11) I pay 500,000 dinars for rent and if it was not for my taxi I would not have been able to live.
  • (12) The 31-year-old government employee was happy to pay a small amount of his 835,000 dinar (£490) salary that came from Baghdad to Isis as tax, and even donated an extra 7,000 dinars to the caliphate voluntarily.
  • (13) Two weeks on, the price has already increased to 1,500 dinar.
  • (14) "We fought previous regimes out of conviction but these days a peshmerga receives around 500,000 dinars (£260) per month.
  • (15) The man is nice to me, he brings me two meals a day … Sometimes I get half a dinar extra, which I keep myself.
  • (16) · Bremer maintained one slush fund of nearly $600m in cash for which there is no paperwork: $200m of it was kept in a room in one of Saddam's former palaces · 19 billion new Iraqi dinars, worth about £6.5m, was found on a plane in Lebanon that had been sent there by the new Iraqi interior minister · One ministry claimed to be paying 8,206 guards, but only 602 could be found · One American agent was given $23m to spend on restructuring; only $6m is accounted for This is an edited version of an article that appears in the current issue of the London Review of Books ( lrb ).
  • (17) "In Niger there is work, but its maybe 10 [dinar] a day.
  • (18) Fuel In Mosul, the price of petrol has increased from 450 dinars to 2,000-2,500 dinars.
  • (19) The analysis of costs of water fluoridation in October 1988 was 250 dinars per inhabitant.
  • (20) There, Moussa paid a smuggler 700 dinar (about £350) to put Mbalo on a boat.

Lira


Definition:

  • (n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Turkish lira has dropped to an 18-month low since protests began, notes the Christian Science Monitor's Tom A. Peter, who adds that Erdogan's popularity has been tied to strong economic growth on his watch.
  • (2) The five worst-performing currencies this year have been the Argentinian peso and Brazilian real, with losses of more than 30% versus the dollar, the South African rand, Turkish lira and the Russian rouble, which have tumbled more than 18 %.
  • (3) Educated at a Protestant missionary school in Lira, he entered Makerere University College in Kampala in 1948, but dropped out after two years, completing his formal education with a number of correspondence courses.
  • (4) Only 10 [Turkish] lira [£2.60],” offers Ahmed*, a boy in ill-fitting, mud-stained trousers, his bare feet barely filling his worn-out shoes.
  • (5) He paid 45,000 lira (£32, equivalent to about £300 today) for two paintings that caught his eye – one a still life and the other an image of a woman relaxing in her garden.
  • (6) Now I get 1,200 lira [£295], whereas a Turk would get 2,200 lira [£540] for the same work.
  • (7) Awards in full Women’s world player of the year: Carli Lloyd Puskas award: Wendell Lira World coach of the year for men’s football: Luis Enrique World coach of the year for women’s football: Jill Ellis World XI : Manuel Neuer; Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Sergio Ramos, Dani Alves; Andrès Iniesta, Luka Modric, Paul Pogba; Neymar, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo.
  • (8) In Italy some recent data documented that the social costs in relation to osteoporosis fractures can be evaluated in 1983 between 80 and 153 milliard liras.
  • (9) The epidemiological picture and the economic consequences of hydatidosis in man and livestock, a damage of 28 billions of liras per year, strongly suggest this disease as a major public health problem in Sardinia.
  • (10) Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, who once said that a third bridge "would mean the murder of the city", has thrown his weight behind the 4.5bn Turkish lira (£1.6bn) project and the bridge is now predicted to open as early as 2015.
  • (11) A well-known example is the Indorama Shebeen el-Kom spinning factory, which has witnessed 95 strikes since being privatised in 2006 after the new owners refused to pay up to 10m Egyptian liras in bonuses to staff.
  • (12) Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) Top priorities before the trip to Europe: change lira into euros; buy a lifejacket; waterproof your electricals.
  • (13) What can I do?” The street sweeper demanded 75 Turkish lira and pointed to a small hole in the fence, not far from the main gate.
  • (14) The Italian lira underwent repeated devaluations between 1973 and 1976, and the devaluation in 1992 brought the euro's precursor, the Exchange Rate Mechanism, to its knees.
  • (15) The expenses for hospital charges due to venous diseases were estimated in 163,827,000,000 of Italian liras, 136,522,500 US.
  • (16) In the beginning, torture was applied in military station units and in police stations, in the facilities of sport fields and prisoners' camps; but above all, in clandestine detention centers and prisons belonging to the secret police (Amnesty International 1977, 1983; CODEPU 1984, 1985, 1986; Lira and Weinstein 1987; Muñoz 1986; Rodríguez de Ruiz-Tagle 1978).
  • (17) The overall cost of a single mechanical suture was markedly lower than that of a single manual suture (934.000 vs 2,209.000 Italian lira).
  • (18) Do you know anyone who can help?” The man gives him a few lira to buy bread, and promises to help him find not a smuggler but a job.
  • (19) The drivers [of the minibuses] get 500 lira per bag.” Neither of them are Isis supporters.
  • (20) Amid all the aid-speak about improving farmers' livelihoods in the predominantly agricultural region, Okech points to the major unexpected impact of a Chinese-built road between two Ugandan towns, Soroti and Lira.

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