EURO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does euro mean? 

• EURO (noun)
  The noun EURO has 1 sense:

1. the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies

  Familiarity information: EURO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EURO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("euro" is a kind of...):

monetary unit (a unit of money)

 Context examples 

With government resolution No. 1430/2019, the state issued an indemnity bond to cover for HDT's 38.8 million euro loan, and daily Népszava covered the story with a headline pointing out that amount as the presumed price.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)