Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
copeck .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small Russian coin, continued as a unit of currency within the Soviet Union. One hundred kopecks make a ruble. The ruble was worth about sixty cents (U. S.) in 1910; in 1991 a two-kopeck coin could be used for a local telephone call at a pay telephone. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1993, the exchange value of the ruble declined rapidly and by the end of 1994 the ruble was worth three hundredths of a cent, and by 1997 two hundredths of a cent. By 1993, the kopek had become of such small value that it was obsolete and no longer minted.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
kopek .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia
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Examples
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We had foreign coins mixed in with our large copper cents, -- all kinds, from the Russian "kopeck" to the "half-penny token" of Great Britain.
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858
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If my kids go to Russia, I will write in my will that they won't get a kopeck.
Acquitted American crabber in Russia still caught up in criminal justice system Will Englund 2011
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If my kids go to Russia, I will write in my will that they won't get a kopeck.
Acquitted American crabber in Russia still caught up in criminal justice system Will Englund 2011
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Whereas in the past, world price fluctuations among the "free nations" - were of little concern to Soviet planners, Russian politicians today very sensibly want to extract every last kopeck from trade partners.
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I don't think the Russians give a kopeck about our precious global warming concerns, and to the extent they might believe that global warming is a real phenomenon, they are all for it: Who wouldn't want to warm up Siberia and turn the Russian Arctic into a blue-water coastline?
James Pinkerton: The Double Sputnik of 2008: An End to Illusions 2008
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Must be a good luck thing to hit a snake on the head with a 50 kopeck coin here.
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Kalashnikov says he has not seen "a single kopeck."
SWORDS INTO VODKA 2007
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Must be a good luck thing to hit a snake on the head with a 50 kopeck coin here.
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I would bet my last kopeck that the delays in question are indicative of none of these things — all of which, incidentally, were suggested to me by the authors themselves.
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Cell phones are now widely used in a country where people struggled 15 years ago to find two-kopeck pieces to feed pay phones.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Russia’s Communists turn to cell phones 2005
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