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giro
[ jahy-roh ]
giro
/ ˈdʒaɪrəʊ /
noun
- a system of transferring money within the financial institutions of a country, such as banks and post offices, by which bills, etc may be paid by filling in a giro form authorizing the debit of a specified sum from one's own account to the credit of the payee's account
- informal.an unemployment or income support payment by giro cheque, posted fortnightly
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Word History and Origins
Origin of giro1
By shortening
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Word History and Origins
Origin of giro1
C20: ultimately from Greek guros circuit
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Example Sentences
Then, as the auto-giro speeded away, the man on the field began to run towards Shady Nook.
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It was an auto-giro, fluttering over a near-by field where there did not happen to be any trees.
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This procession made the giro of the city, for we fell in with it again in the Piazza della Colonna two hours afterwards.
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E la velocit del giro del danaro, non la quantit dei metalli che fa apparir molto a poco il danaro.
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One of these houses on the Giro had for generations been in the possession of the Guai family.
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