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Example sentences for: peso
How can you use “peso” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
A peso is worth a U.S. dollar, and that promise is made credible by the legal requirement that every peso in circulation be backed by a dollar's worth of foreign exchange reserves.
'Not one single Mexican lost a peso in their bank accounts,' a spokesman for the Finance Ministry said.
The concept continues through the Spanish word for `weight': peso (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Philippines, Uruguay); its diminutive: peseta (Spain), and the same word in Portuguese: peso (Guinea-Bissau).
(Argentine law now requires that one peso be worth exactly one U.S. dollar, and that every peso in circulation be backed by a dollar in reserves.)
Inflation has been eliminated, with the peso securely pegged to the dollar.