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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
franc
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
strong
▪ The government says it simply wants to make an early start to convince the markets of its attachment to the strong franc.
■ VERB
pay
▪ We were paid 120 francs and interviewed again.
▪ Companies pay many hundred francs just for a nameplate.
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▪ But a spiraling deficit and weakened franc forced him to adopt austerity policies in 1983.
▪ For example, 170.25 francs divided by 11.35 gives the sterling equivalent.
▪ The big danger would be a drop in the value of the franc.
▪ The budget for equipment and investments, wholly financed by external funds, would be balanced at 10,000 million Comoros francs.
▪ The Visby limitations of 10,000 Poincaré francs per package or 30 Poincaré francs per kilogram were raised by 25%.
▪ They collected their pay in five franc notes in the evening and looked for ways of spending it.
▪ We were paid 120 francs and interviewed again.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Franc

Franc \Franc\ (fr[a^][ng]k), n. [F., fr. franc a Franc. See Frank, a.] A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. In 1913 it was equivalent to about nineteen cents American, or ten pence British, and is divided into 100 centimes.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
franc

French coin, late 14c., frank, from French franc; a name said to have been given because Medieval Latin Francorum Rex, "King of the Franks" (see Frank), was inscribed on gold coins first made during the reign of Jean le Bon (1350-64). Used of different gold and silver coins over the years; as the name of an official monetary unit of France from 1795.

Wiktionary
franc

n. 1 former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, replaced by the euro. 2 Any of several units of currency, some of which are multi-national (West African CFA Franc (XOF), Central African CFA Franc (XAF), the Swiss Franc (CHF)) while others are national currencies.

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WordNet
franc

n. the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes

Wikipedia
Franc

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1 Swiss franc 1983 obverse

1 Swiss franc 1983 reverse

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1 French franc 1991 coin obverse

1 French franc 1991 coin reverse

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Belgian franc

Belgian franc

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1 Luxembourgish franc 1990 obverse

1 Luxembourgish franc 1990 coin reverse

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1 Monaco franc 1978 coin obverse

1 Monaco franc 1978 coin reverse

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100 Saar francs reverse and obverse

100 Saar francs 1956

The franc (₣) is the name of several currency units. The French franc was the former currency of France until the euro was adopted in 1999 (by law, 2002 de facto). The Swiss franc is a major world currency today due to the prominence of Swiss financial institutions. The name is said to derive from the Latin inscription francorum rex ( Style of the French sovereign: King of the Franks) used on early French coins and until the 18th century, or from the French franc, meaning "free" (and "frank").

The countries that use francs include Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and most of Francophone Africa. Before the introduction of the euro, francs were also used in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, while Andorra and Monaco accepted the French franc as legal tender ( Monegasque franc). The franc was also used within the French Empire's colonies, including Algeria and Cambodia. The franc is sometimes italianised or hispanicised as the franco, for instance in Luccan franco.

One franc is typically divided into 100 centimes. The French franc symbol was an F with a line through it (₣) or, more frequently, only an F. For practical reasons, the banks and the financial markets used the abbreviation FF for the French franc in order to distinguish it from the Belgian franc (FB), the Luxembourgish franc (FL or FLux) etcetera (In the Luxembourgish language, the word for franc is Frang, plural form Frangen.)

Franc (disambiguation)

Franc or francs may refer to:

  • French name for the Franks
  • Franc, the name of several currency units
  • Francs, Gironde, a commune of the Gironde département, in France
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Usage examples of "franc".

In the beginning of November I sold shares for fifty thousand francs to a man named Gamier, living in the Rue du Mail, giving up to him a third part of the materials in my warehouse, and accepting a manager chosen by him and paid by the company.

She took them out with her promptly to walk and to drive, and even--towards night-- sketched a plan for carrying them to the Etablissement, where, for only a franc apiece, they should listen to a concert of celebrities.

The name of the man opposite is Paul Ayers and he borrowed fifty thousand francs from the place where he worked after his boss said that it would be all right.

Kibria Hussain said that if Paul Ayers did not want to go to prison then he should not have stolen fifty thousand francs from his boss.

It would have been an absurd misfortune that eighty men stationed in that bailiwick should, for the sake of a few louis and a few ells of English cloth, have occasioned the confiscation of Hamburg, French, and Dutch property to the amount of 80,000,000 francs.

But as we should have to pay off the three thousand and some hundred francs due to Barbet, it would be an outlay of twelve thousand francs to risk.

I tried to satisfy my wishes, she opposed some resistance, but a double crown of six francs made her obedient, and finding that her only fault was a complete absence of cleanliness, I began to wash her with my own hands.

After the customary greetings he began by complimenting me on the success of my lottery, and then remarked that I had distributed tickets for more than six thousand francs.

I had not as much money about me, but I sent her the same day a packet of twelve hundred francs with a note in which I begged her to have recourse to me in all her necessities.

Come, my ten thousand francs, canaille, or I take my pay on your back.

I saw it was only a matter of twelve francs, and delighted to be quit of her so cheaply I told her to give me sixteen.

My situation was not pleasant to contemplate: I had been drugged, cheated, robbed, abused, imprisoned, threatened with a mulct of a hundred thousand francs, which would have stripped me to my shirt, as nobody knew the contents of my pocket-book.

As may be imagined, I was surprised to find them in England, and especially to be introduced to them by the Charpillon, who, knowing nothing of the affair of the jewels, had not told them that Seingalt was the same as Casanova, whom they had cheated of six thousand francs.

I told him that the only arrangement I would accept was the payment of the six thousand francs, and that they might think themselves very lucky that I did not insist on having my interest, and thus repaying myself in part for the sums they had cheated out of me.

Jeddy and I handed down Lady Ransome, and I gave Cephas Cluff his final orders: to head for Nantes and sell the Pembroke to the Latours for one hundred francs, so she might lie safe at her French quay, and be readily repurchased when all danger of seizure was past.