Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro.
From the initial letters of European currency unit; simultaneously an allusion to the historical currency écu.
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