PECthe standardunit of money in India, Pakistan, and some other countries 卢比〔印度、巴基斯坦等国家的货币单位〕
Examples from the Corpus
rupee• They do the operation and keep the woman there for about an hour then give her 50 rupees.• The watchman looked at me expectantly so of course I had to say how nice it was and also donate five rupees.• The new measures would effectively add some 4,050 million rupees to the fiscaldeficit.• Singlerupeesachetscomprise about 70 per cent of the company's shampoosales.• In November the government had been forced to revalue its goldreserves to provide additional cover for the rupee.• The budgetenvisaged, for the first time, the partial free convertibility of the rupee.• From this they went oil to the rupee, which they discussed for a full ten minutes.• If a beggar demanded two rupees instead of the one given, Dilip grabbed the first rupee back.
Originrupee
(1600-1700)Hindirupaiya, from Sanskritrupya“silver made into coins”