lira

Converse of object

• cost: We thanked him and bought a loaf of bread which looked like a large Chelsea bun and cost 1000,000 lire.
• pay: That would mean I would have to pay 35,000,000 lira to buy my ELP CD.
• have: Major political parties in Italy are now talking openly about having the lira back as a parallel currency to the euro.
• accept: Already a supermarket in Tuscany made a PR splash by announcing it would accept old-style lira for one weekend earlier this month.
• buy: So instead of £ 1 buying 2,500,000 lira, it now buys just 2.5 new lira.
• bring: I myself found no sign, during a week in Italy, of a great desire to bring back the lira.

Adjective modifier

• Turkish: In any case the fine shall not be less than 50 million Turkish liras.
• Italian: Cash in Italian lire at the Conference Registration Desk only.

Modifies a noun

• coin: Kingdom of Napoleon Gold Coins Twenty lire and forty lire gold coins were issued by the kingdom between 1807 and 1814.