1
: any of various former basic monetary units (as in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg)
2
the basic monetary unit of Switzerland and a number of especially sub-Saharan nations in Africa see Money Table
Examples of franc in a Sentence
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The company, backed by tennis icon Roger Federer, reported a 29% jump in year-over-year first-quarter sales in constant currency terms worth 508 million Swiss francs ($560 million) on Tuesday, surpassing the half-a-billion mark for the first time.
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Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 15 May 2024
The bank completed a similar buyback in March, bringing in 5.01 billion Swiss francs ($5.52 billion), or 8.62 % of the share capital of UBS, over the course of two years.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 7 May 2024
The winner receives a diploma and 50,000 Swiss francs (roughly $55,000) to buy watchmaking tools and finance their horological project.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
In Belgium, the first beet sugar factories were built in 1833; the price for 100 kilos of bones went from 2 francs to 14 francs between 1832 and 1837.
—Byandrew Curry, science.org, 2 Apr. 2024
The bank completed a similar buyback last month, bringing in 5.01 billion Swiss francs ($5.52 billion), or 8.62 % of the share capital of UBS, over the course of two years.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
For 15 billion Swiss francs—roughly $17 billion—the lab envisions digging a 91-kilometer-long tunnel and installing an e+e- ring called the Future Circular Collider-ee (FCC-ee) that would run at 350 GeV, the likely limit for such a machine.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
The dominant Swiss luxury watch brand produced 1.24 million timepieces in 2023 with sales of 10.1 billion Swiss francs ($11.5 billion).
—Andy Hoffman, Fortune Europe, 29 Feb. 2024
The one-of-a-kind timepiece from the Geneva watchmaker could fetch more than 1 million Swiss francs ($1.1 million) at auction, Guillemin said.
—Andy Hoffman, Fortune Europe, 20 Mar. 2024
Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 15 May 2024
The bank completed a similar buyback in March, bringing in 5.01 billion Swiss francs ($5.52 billion), or 8.62 % of the share capital of UBS, over the course of two years.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 7 May 2024
The winner receives a diploma and 50,000 Swiss francs (roughly $55,000) to buy watchmaking tools and finance their horological project.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
In Belgium, the first beet sugar factories were built in 1833; the price for 100 kilos of bones went from 2 francs to 14 francs between 1832 and 1837.
—Byandrew Curry, science.org, 2 Apr. 2024
The bank completed a similar buyback last month, bringing in 5.01 billion Swiss francs ($5.52 billion), or 8.62 % of the share capital of UBS, over the course of two years.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
For 15 billion Swiss francs—roughly $17 billion—the lab envisions digging a 91-kilometer-long tunnel and installing an e+e- ring called the Future Circular Collider-ee (FCC-ee) that would run at 350 GeV, the likely limit for such a machine.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
The dominant Swiss luxury watch brand produced 1.24 million timepieces in 2023 with sales of 10.1 billion Swiss francs ($11.5 billion).
—Andy Hoffman, Fortune Europe, 29 Feb. 2024
The one-of-a-kind timepiece from the Geneva watchmaker could fetch more than 1 million Swiss francs ($1.1 million) at auction, Guillemin said.
—Andy Hoffman, Fortune Europe, 20 Mar. 2024
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franc
noun1
: the former basic unit of money of France and Belgium
2
: a basic unit of money (as of Switzerland)
3
: a coin representing one franc
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