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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This is, after all, a city where tidbits of access, insight, and actionable information are as prized as hard currency.
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Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2025
Yet, when corruption is endemic and is ultimately exposed, it is usually revealed that the perpetrators generally had some level of access to hard currency, in the form of US dollars.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Following intense negotiations with the U.S., in October 2023 the Treasury granted Trinidad an amendment to a license allowing the joint development of the Dragon offshore gas field, allowing Trinidad to pay Venezuela in hard currency or in kind.
—Panorama Media Ltd., Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2025
The large-scale money printing led to the depreciation of the Sri Lankan rupee, which was artificially reversed only when Sri Lanka’s central bank imposed an unrealistic conversion rate that resulted in drying up available hard currency even faster.
—Dushni Weerakoon, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2022
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Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2025
Yet, when corruption is endemic and is ultimately exposed, it is usually revealed that the perpetrators generally had some level of access to hard currency, in the form of US dollars.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Following intense negotiations with the U.S., in October 2023 the Treasury granted Trinidad an amendment to a license allowing the joint development of the Dragon offshore gas field, allowing Trinidad to pay Venezuela in hard currency or in kind.
—Panorama Media Ltd., Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2025
The large-scale money printing led to the depreciation of the Sri Lankan rupee, which was artificially reversed only when Sri Lanka’s central bank imposed an unrealistic conversion rate that resulted in drying up available hard currency even faster.
—Dushni Weerakoon, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2022
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“Hard currency.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20currency. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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