Definition of Mexican peso

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

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mexican Peso

Mexican hairlesses
Mexican hand tree
Mexican hat
Mexican hat cell
Mexican hat corpuscle
Mexican husk tomato
Mexican hyssop
Mexican jumping bean
Mexican jumping beans
Mexican juniper
Mexican mint
Mexican monetary unit
Mexican nut pine
Mexican onyx
Mexican overdrive
Mexican peso
Mexican plateau
Mexican pocket mouse
Mexican poppy
Mexican standoff
Mexican sunflower
Mexican swamp cypress
Mexican tea
Mexican tulip poppy
Mexican valium
Mexican wave
Mexican waves
Mexican wolf
Mexicanism
Mexicanization

Literary usage of Mexican peso

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

1. Money and Investments; a Reference Book for the Use of Those Desiring by Montgomery Rollins (1907)
"7, 1905, contained the following: " Consul Canada, of Veracruz, reports that . . . the new mexican peso will henceforth be the fixed standard of currency, ..."

2. Modern Currency Reforms: A History and Discussion of Recent Currency Reforms by Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1916)
"... the mexican peso, converting into gold the silver which it contained. ... In order to accomplish this end it would be necessary to proceed very rapidly, ..."

3. Money and Investments; a Reference Book for the Use of Those Desiring by Montgomery Rollins (1907)
"7, 1905, contained the following: " Consul Canada, of Veracruz, reports that . . . the new mexican peso will henceforth be the fixed standard of currency, ..."

4. Money and Investments: A Reference Book for Use of Those Desiring by Montgomery Rollins, Percy W. Brown (1917)
"7, 1905, contained the following: " Consul Canada, of Veracruz, reports that . . . the new mexican peso will henceforth be the fixed standard of currency, ..."

5. America and the Philippines by Carl Crow (1914)
"As in other parts of the Far East, the mexican peso was the principal circulating medium in which business was carried on. As nearly all the foreign trade ..."

6. A Brief History of the Philippines by Leandro Heriberto Fernández (1919)
"The mexican peso had for a long time been in circulation in the Islands. Indeed, this had been for decades the common money of the Far East. ..."

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