escudo

A noun referring to a former monetary unit of Portugal, or the current basic monetary unit of Cape Verde, each subdivided into 100 centavos.

• 🇩🇪Ehemalige Währung Portugals sowie die heutige Währung von Kap Verde, die jeweils in 100 Centavo unterteilt ist bzw. war.

1. Former Portuguese currency B1 formal business

   The basic monetary unit of Portugal before the adoption of the euro, subdivided into 100 centavos.

   • The old price was written in escudos, not euros.
   • He found a collection of Portuguese escudo coins from the 1960s.
   • The exchange rate was 200 escudos to one dollar at the time.
   • Portugal used the escudo from 1911 until 2002.

   🇩🇪Ehemalige portugiesische Währung

2. Cape Verdean currency B1 formal business

   The official monetary unit of Cape Verde, equal to 100 centavos.

   • The Cape Verdean escudo has a fixed exchange rate with the euro.
   • I need to change my dollars into escudos before traveling to Cape Verde.
   • The daily wage is often quoted in escudos on the islands.
   • Prices in local markets are typically listed in escudos.

   🇩🇪Kap-Verde-Escudo

• escudos plural form
• escudos' possessive plural form
• escudo's possessive singular form