Definition of Cuban peso

1. Noun. The basic unit of money in Cuba; equal to 100 centavos.

Exact synonyms: Peso
Terms within: Centavo
Generic synonyms: Cuban Monetary Unit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuban Peso

Cuauhtémoc
Cub
Cub Scout
Cub Scouts
Cuba
Cuban
Cuban Revolution
Cuban bast
Cuban bread
Cuban capital
Cuban heel
Cuban heels
Cuban itch
Cuban mahogany
Cuban monetary unit
Cuban peso (current term)
Cuban red macaw
Cuban red macaws
Cuban sandwich
Cuban sandwiches
Cuban spinach
Cubanism
Cubans
Cubist
Cubists
Cubs
Cuca
Cuculidae
Cuculiformes
Cuculus

Literary usage of Cuban peso

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Industrial Cuba: Being a Study of Present Commercial and Industrial by Robert Percival Porter (1899)
"In offering to accept for the present the Cuban peso or silver dollar for sixty cents, American money, the United States Government merely delays the ..."

2. What Next in Europe? by Frank Arthur Vanderlip (1922)
"For a time our dollars circulated by the side of the Cuban peso. In the Orient to-day, sound bank notes circulate by the side of other currencies. ..."

3. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1878)
"9 75 Erroneous valuation of Cuban peso... Sec.30121 Rev. dtat 76 e5 See Exhibit K, page 82, Finance Re- Do. port, 1*70. 5 K5 Error in liquidation ' Do. ..."

4. Appendix to the Report on the Commercial and Industrial Condition of the by Robert Percival Porter, United States Division of Customs (1898)
"... declaring that from the date of the introduction of American currency the Cuban peso and the American dollar will have the same and identical value, ie, ..."

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