What is "foreign currency"

Usage examples of "foreign currency".

I can give you any amount of rubles, but foreign currency is tight right now.

Especially in the Caspian Sea, where pollution had killed off most of the sturgeon, and with it the fish eggs known as caviar, which had for so long been a prime means of earning foreign currency for the USSR.

So there's to be famine once more, tightening the belt once more, having to buy wheat from abroad, using up our hard-earned foreign currency, our future in danger, terrible danger, food our Achilles' heel.

He pointed out that such a large transfer of foreign currency would enable the Nazis to buy a.

The average Russian citizen was forbidden by law to have foreign currency in his possession, and there was no convenient way to spend it in any case.

The BIS was even paying Germany dividends on the looted gold and was selling some of this seized gold to purchase foreign currency, all to fund the Nazi war machine.

That earns the Hyadeans the foreign currency they need for their land deals, and in recycling it everyone in the loop gets rich.

Despite ever more severe edicts issued by the government, the markets and shops continued to sell their wares first to those who could pay in gold or foreign currency.

The Friends made every effort to buy food from outside Spain, because that added to the supply instead of merely shifting it within the country, and to avoid giving foreign currency to either Spanish government.

I could have made other charges--that he passed information to the British Secret Service, that he turned his Department into the unconscious lackey of a bourgeois state, that he deliberately shielded revanchist anti-Party groups and accepted sums of foreign currency in reward.