euro

n. European

n. unit of currency introduced in 1999 as the composite monetary unit of the members of the European Union (also called the European Currency Unit), €

The euro (currency sign: €; banking code: EUR) is the official currency of the Eurozone (also known as the Euro Area or the Euro Land), which consists of 13 European states (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain) and will extend to include Cyprus and Malta from 1 January 2008. It is the single currency for more than 320 million Europeans. Including areas using currencies pegged to the euro, the euro directly affects more than 480 million people worldwide. With more than €610 billion in circulation as of December 2006 (equivalent to US$802 billion at the exchange rates at the time), the euro is the currency with the highest combined value of cash in circulation in the world, having surpassed the U.S. dollar.
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Euro may refer to Europe or the European Union:Euro (€), the currency of many European Union countries in the Eurozone, the European Union member states that have adopted the euro currency unionEuropean Championship (disambiguation)European emission standards, acceptable limits for exhaust emissions of new vehicles sold in EU member statesEurovision Song ContestEuro-English, English translations of European concepts that are not native to English-speaking countriesEuropop, a style of pop music that developed in Europe throughout the 1970sEurodance, European synthesizer-driven dance music which became popularized worldwide since the early 1990sAP European History, part of the Advanced Placement ProgramA European (informal use)
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Noun
1. the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
(hypernym) monetary unit

Euro, European

n. Euro, unit of currency introduced in 1999 as the composite monetary unit of the members of the European Union (also called the European currency unit)