(n.) A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the upside, this year's monsoon will lead to bumper agricultural production, and the cheaper rupee also comes with a thick silver lining.
(2) Bond, rupee and share prices rose last week after exit polls predicted a strong BJP performance.
(3) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(4) Muchhal, a professional singer who has worked on major Bollywood hits, has raised more than 37m rupees (£400,000) to save the lives of more than 550 children with heart ailments.
(5) According to the Indian Tea Association, all workers in the main Brahmaputra valley estates receive a basic cash wage of 89 rupees (£1) a day – a little over half the minimum legal wage.
(6) Sometimes they come even though they know someone in the same area, just down the street, has been shot.” She attributes this to a “continuous engagement with the workers and constant direction with local government officials”, while others at the centre point out that even though the money the workers receive is only 500 rupees (about £3) a day, for impoverished inhabitants of Karachi, it is too good a wage to pass up – whatever the risk.
(7) It sells for 140 rupees a kilogram at auction in Assam, but according to a joint report by Oxfam and the Ethical Tea Partnership , workers there are paid at rates equivalent to just 40% of the average Indian wage.
(8) Porters, rickshaw drivers, nurses, patients, students, bureaucrats, doctors and itinerant holy men all stand to eat their heavily subsidised meals, priced at no more than 5 rupees (5p) and eaten at ferocious speed with fingers from tin plates.
(9) The government announced a 50m-rupee (£300,000) bounty on his head; the following year, the US priced him at $5m (£3.1m).
(10) The most recent figures released by the Reserve Bank of India show that about 12.6tn rupees have been deposited since the rupee recall was announced, far more than the Modi government had predicted, indicating that it may have underestimated the amount of untaxed wealth being hoarded by citizens.
(11) In the past, established banks have shown reluctance to expand their countryside operations when their current rural branches are already hit by high costs, poor connectivity and low savings in areas where the average per capita income is around 16,000 rupees, compared with 44,000 rupees in urban areas .
(12) The informality with which the boys are selling property worth millions of rupees makes the flats sound like cheap, dispensable goods.
(13) We have espoused unpopular causes, stood up for those too feeble to stand up for themselves, locked horns with the high and mighty so swollen with power that they have forgotten their roots, exposed corruption and the waste of your hard-earned tax rupees, and made sure that whatever the propaganda of the day, you were allowed to hear a contrary view.
(14) In the urban slums of Mandawali, eastern Delhi, her mother scratches out a living as a 'presswoman', earning up to three rupees for each item of clothing she neatly irons.
(15) The state government has already announced compensation packages of 200,000 rupees for the families of the women who died and 50,000 rupees for those hospitalised.
(16) Off the standard tourist trail is Purana Qila, Delhi’s oldest Mughal monument, where 100 rupees will buy you half-an-hour’s pedalo ride on a beautiful boating lake in the shadow of the citadel’s walls.
(17) According to the department of foreign employment, more than 200 agencies have been punished since mid-February, with suspensions and fines of up to 200,000 rupees (£1,250).
(18) The unsophisticated will imagine this works crudely, with Cameron pulling out his notepad and taking dictation from Uncle Rupe.
(19) None of the mothers will admit that they took money in exchange for their children, but activists working in the villages say that a price of between 1,000 rupees and 3,000 rupees is the norm.
(20) "My employer's wife used to taunt me by saying: 'I've bought you for 30,000 rupees, so do as I say,'" she says.
Rupia
Definition:
(n.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.