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The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.
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The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
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The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
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The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro
Examples of lira in a Sentence
The minimum annual premium is six lire for an annuity of one lira per day at the age of sixty, and insurance against sickness.
This is a simple harmonic wave-line, whose mean distance from the axis is a, whose wave-length is lira, and whose amplitude is c. The internal pressure corresponding to this unduloid is as before p = T/a.
In a step inconceivable two generations ago, the mark, franc, and lira have been replaced by the euro.
That would mean I would have to pay 35,000,000 lira to buy my ELP CD.
Major political parties in Italy are now talking openly about having the lira back as a parallel currency to the euro.
Already a supermarket in Tuscany made a PR splash by announcing it would accept old-style lira for one weekend earlier this month.
So instead of £ 1 buying 2,500,000 lira, it now buys just 2.5 new lira.
I myself found no sign, during a week in Italy, of a great desire to bring back the lira.
Food & Drink Water is considered drinkable, normal precautions should be observed with food Currency Italian Lira (Lit ).