bolivar

plural bolivars · plural bolivares

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of bolívar.

1. A city, the county seat of Polk County, Missouri, United States.
2. A village in Lawrence Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
3. A city, the county seat of Hardeman County, Tennessee.

plural Bolivars

1. alternativeAlternative form of bolívar.

   “These people want to buy some arepas. How much are they?” “They are two Bolivars apiece, and I haven’t gone yet.[…]”

   2000, Charlotte Mijares, Blood, Sweat and Cheers: A Madman’s Rise to Fame in Professional Wrestling, San Jose, Calif.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 173

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   The mining law of 1925 places taxes at two Bolivars ($0.39) per hectare on property not in operation. […] The 125,000,000 Bolivars surplus in the treasury, while not a great deal of money in London or New York ($25,000,000) denotes a condition of things in Venezuela that the British and French like.

   1929, Mining and Metallurgy, volume 10, pages 450 and 452

   The Venezuelan unit of currency is the Bolivar (VEB). […] The Bolivar is nominally subdivided into 100 céntimos, although coins denominated in céntimos no longer circulate.

   2009, Mercer, The Global Manager’s Guide to Living and Working Abroad: Western Europe and the Americas, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 287