hard currency

noun

: money that comes from a country with a strong government and economy and that is not likely to lose its value

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The measures are designed to choke off the ability of the regime to generate revenue and hard currency. — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026 Hanke’s been the architect in all three of the four cases in the last quarter-century where a state switched from a hyperinflating to a hard currency since World War II. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 The pushback comes as importers across the continent and other emerging markets turn to digital currencies to pay overseas vendors on the spot amid tight bank supplies of hard currency and costly transfer delays. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Experts long suspected that Cuba was reselling some of the oil from Venezuela for hard currency. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hard currency

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“Hard currency.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20currency. Accessed 31 Aug. 2026.

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