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  • noun Plural form of rupee.

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Examples

  • One lakh rupees is 100,000 rupees, which is about $2100 in US dollars.

    Boing Boing 2006

  • Banks borrowed a huge 1.31 trillion rupees from the RBI's repo window Friday, much higher than last week's 634.47 billion rupees average.

    India Takes Steps to Ease Cash Crunch Khushita Vasant 2010

  • I earn in rupees, but I am spending in euros and dollars

    How Medal Winners will Use their Prize Money Shefali Anand 2010

  • A further 150 million rupees-200 million rupees is likely to be invested on these brands in October-December, the company said.

    United Spirits Profit Up 7.2% Rumman Ahmed 2010

  • The Queen's coin known in Kandahar as Kaldar rupees is melted and coined into Kabuli and Kandahar rupees.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • Rawlinson's surreptitious gathering of Company rupees from the local economy was successful in the sense that he achieved that end without his scheme becoming known by the local Hindki community, but it was apparently incomplete in terms of having acquired the necessary amount.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • Yes, there is the issue of outsourcing jobs - we know that it's a lot cheaper to pay "Robbie" and his colleagues in rupees than in dollars - but why hide behind such a transparent cover?

    July 2004 2004

  • We sent the wheat and India created a counterpart fund of approximately its equivalent value in rupees, some at least of which she will obtain by the sale of the wheat to her Indian distributors.

    Canada and the Colombo Plan 1952

  • * Ben writes, "I am not sure over what time period the 10,000 rupee minimum wage is - 10,000 rupees translates to about US$120."

    Kasama 2009

  • * Ben writes, "I am not sure over what time period the 10,000 rupee minimum wage is - 10,000 rupees translates to about US$120."

    Kasama 2009

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