How to Use hard currency in a Sentence

hard currency

noun
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  • India been one of the prime buyers of Russian oil and weapons, providing hard currency to Putin’s government at a time when the G-7 is seeking to starve it of funds.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2023
  • The hard currency of rupee notes is more useful to most women, Ross says, and the cashing-out process has an additional benefit.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2018
  • Thanks to billions of dollars in foreign aid from Western partners, Ukraine's hard currency reserves have grown to nearly $30 billion, slightly higher than at the start of the war.
    — Reuters, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Lebanese citizens, many of them struggling as the country’s economy tanked, simply saw the financial yield from the network’s hot spots as an easy way to make hard currency.
    — Jacob Russell, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Nordhoff's zeal for exports is less about expanding VW's sales and more about bringing in hard currency from outside Germany.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Vital products were in short supply and could only be procured with hard currency on the black market controlled by murky criminals.
    — John Kleinheinz, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • The country of 105 million people is sinking under foreign debt and contending with a severe shortage of hard currency.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • In recent years, China has also supplied a lot of hard currency to Argentina, but Milei is a fervent anti-Communist.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Egyptians are grappling with record inflation, rising poverty and a hard currency shortage.
    — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Cash is king The debate surrounding the protection of physical money in Austria has been raging for a number of years—the country’s right-wing Freedom Party being among the most vocal supporters of hard currency.
    — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • This restructuring is bringing to light the extent to which crypto businesses that pitched themselves as an alternative to banks still rely on those institutions for access to hard currency.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The difference is that rather than collecting hard currency like dollars, scammers are targeting cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Argentines were also buying dollars and removing hard currency deposits from banks as the peso accelerated its already steady depreciation.
    — TIME, 23 Oct. 2023

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