Meaning & use

valuta

noun·Academic

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The value of one currency expressed in terms of another; foreign currency, especially in international banking and trade.

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The contract specified payment in hard valuta rather than local currency.

Investors watched the valuta markets closely amid the crisis.

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Borrowed from Italian and German banking terminology; used mainly in economics and international finance.

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currencyexchange value

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