Definition of "cruzeiro" []

• A unit of currency formerly used in Brazil. (noun)

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• "One hundred cruzeiro bills were the smallest you usually ever saw; this were worth about 30 cents, and were called "contos"."
• "Anyhow, even with some 1000 cruzeiro notes (worth about $3), but mostly in contos, the pay for Suliadora was a multitude of stacks of bills, bundled together with rubber bands."
• "And the currency was so devalued that the monetary unit, a cruzeiro, was not even worth a penny."