scrip

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Recent Examples of scrip Miners were usually not paid in U.S. currency but in company scrip, which could only be redeemed at the company store. Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024 Telecom major Safaricom, NSE’s biggest scrip by average capitalization, lost 36.4% of its value, adding to foreign investors’ fears. Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023 If that happens, then the ticket credits will fly away, leaving tens of thousands of passengers holding worthless airline scrip. Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2020 The number of investors in the scrips increased from 857 to 55,343, Moneycontrol reported. Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for scrip
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Noun
  • The Supreme Court also cleared the way for the administration to proceed with the suspension of millions of dollars in federal grants for teacher training after states had urgently asked a judge for the funding to continue.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The distribution deal is estimated to be worth billions of dollars to CBS.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Kublai’s daring notion was to make paper money (the chao) the dominant form of currency.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
  • That’s not to say that paper money was unavailable before then.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
Noun
  • All three currencies were on track to end the March quarter stronger against the greenback.
    Reuters, NBC news, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Sterling recovered its losses from the previous session when markets increased bets on a May interest rate cut from the Bank of England, adding 0.5% against the greenback to trade at $1.295.
    Jenni Reid,Chloe Taylor,Sawdah Bhaimiya,Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • France: The lower house of Parliament passed a bill that expands the definition of rape to include nonconsensual penetration.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • State Capitol news in brief Senate rejects bill to up donation cap The Arkansas Senate on Tuesday rejected a bill that would have increased the maximum contribution from a person to a county political... Subscribe to continue reading, or log in.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Coins from the United States, Canada and other nations will be featured in addition to supplies, tokens, banknotes, ancient, gold, silver and copper coins and other items available to be bought and sold, according to the club’s website.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The typical person has roughly $544 in cash and valuables like coins, banknotes, and bullion at home, according to a new survey from financial management app Piere.
    Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And if everyone else is going to break bad, why can’t Belinda get a little cash to jumpstart her business?
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
  • But once Mulaney talked his wife Olivia Munn into giving him the cash because he’s not allowed to have more than $300 in cash due to his past issues with substance abuse, the manager then requested $100,000 and finally the Everybody’s Live crew began to notice the red flags.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The markets are already speaking: The U.S. dollar now trades for more than 1 million rials, an almost 75 percent increase from a few months ago, making the Iranian currency among the most worthless in the world (in 2015, when Iran last signed a deal with the U.S., the dollar was just 29,500 IRR).
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025
  • From streaming music, movies and games to work and productivity tools delivered via subscription, to virtual communities and worlds with their own economies and currencies.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Yes, but: States also get separate federal money for immunization efforts through programs like Vaccines for Children, Michaud notes — though many were counting on these grants as well.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Tanzi tied up Acosta in the back of the van and headed to Key West, stealing her money from ATMS along the way after threatening her with a box cutter to get her bank account password.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Scrip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrip. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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