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- noun Plural form of
zaire .
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Examples
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Initially the park was subsidized with 600,000 zaires annually.
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They bring in their foreign currency, exchange it for zaires with their silent partners, and then head for the diamond mines.
The Diamond Myth 2006
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They bring in their foreign currency, exchange it for zaires with their silent partners, and then head for the diamond mines.
The Diamond Myth 2006
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It refused to adopt Mobuto's new zaires due to its opposition to his rule and now continues to use the old zaires.
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High Council of the Republic, on the situation in the country, where "the state coffers are empty", but for notes with a face value of between 100,000 and one million new zaires.
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The talk along the jetties is not of politics or war, but of money, even if the old women with their pockets stuffed with new zaires, the national currency, are tightlipped about their profits.
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In the meantime, the rebel government in Lubumbashi has been struggling with a shortage of cash caused by its failure to stabilizd the exchange rate of new zaires to the dollar.
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She paid 900 dollars for her goods and 5.9 million new zaires
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The mining company Gecamines, heeding orders from the rebels who took it over, has agreed to exchange new zaires for dollars - up to dlrs 2.5 million worth.
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The national currency, which Friday traded at 170,000 zaire to the dollar, soared to 50,000 to the dollar Monday, prompting merchants who normally accept dollars to demand zaires in case their value increases further.
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