greenback
Example Sentences
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Friday’s move came as the Chinese currency hit a nearly three-year-high against a weakening greenback in recent days.
The greenback is likely to “trade on the back foot while sustained positive risk sentiment could support continued foreign inflows into the region,” the strategists add.
The greenback was also hit last month by increasing talk of a coordinated intervention to prop up the competing Japanese yen.
From MarketWatch
The fund is a backstop for the Hong Kong dollar's currency peg to the greenback.
From Barron's
In an economy where access to dollars was tightly controlled, Venezuela allowed shrimp producers to keep most of the greenbacks they received from exports, enabling companies to fund expansion.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
