Synonyms for lira
ˈlɪər ə; ˈlɪər eɪli·ra

Princeton's WordNet

1. lira, Maltese liranoun

   the basic unit of money on Malta; equal to 100 cents

2. lira, Turkish liranoun

   the basic unit of money in Turkey

3. lira, Italian liranoun

   formerly the basic unit of money in Italy; equal to 100 centesimi

Matched Categories

1. • Italian Monetary Unit
   • Maltese Monetary Unit
   • Turkish Monetary Unit

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1. List of paraphrases for "lira":

   maltese, lire, turkish, liera, pound, read, malta, lm

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1. Mehmet Turan:

   They were generally bringing Sultan, Love and Paradise parrots. Here in Turkey a Paradise parrot goes for 1,000 lira, but they were bringing them over for 500, it's the same for lovebirds. We were selling them at 25 lira retail, but they came from Syria at 12.5 to 15.

2. Koon Chow:

   If you put on some risk premium that's another 50-100 bps so that's 350 bps-plus, when you look at the historical relationship between CDS and currency and extend Turkish CDS to 350, it implies dollar/lira at 3.2 (per dollar).

3. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

   As long as we don't take our own money as a benchmark, we are doomed to sink. The Turkish lira, our money, that is what we will go forward with. Not with foreign currency, we have been working for some time now to get the Turkish economy out of the spiral of high interest rates, high inflation, and to set it on the path of growth through investment, employment, production, exportation and current account surplus.

4. William Jackson:

   The drivers of the weakness of the lira - the large current account deficit, the high inflation and unanchored expectations are still in place.

5. Luis Costa:

   Lira is not only suffering because of Erdogan's continuous criticism of monetary policy. (It) sells off because the current account gap still translates into a sizeable daily financing need, heavy reliance on short-term dollar borrowing makes this balance of payments very volatile. As usual, currency is the first channel to absorb the shocks.