The conversion of the Brazilian cruzado to its foreign exchange equivalent poses special problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Bueno, en mis talleres literarios me he cruzado con alumnos que llegaron a decirme que "suena mejor escribir de tú".    From Wordnik.com.  [veruscio Diary Entry] Reference

The austral and cruzado programs have missed many targets and used price controls as a tool, but we should not overlook their very substantial progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Developing Countries—New Directions] Reference

Estábamos en el sitio del cual parece que se inspiraron los que crearon "SpongeBob SquarePants", porque el sitio se llamaba "Crabby Joe" o algo así, por allá por las playas en Daytona, y mientras me encontraba admirando este chinchorro montado sobre el mar con un puente cruzado, vi un pedazo de madera pintado que decía una frase que adoptaré como mi "motto": "dream of tomorrow but live for today".    From Wordnik.com.  [cruda Diary Entry] Reference

(⁂) ¶ Vendem se a cruzado em papel em casa de Francisco fernandez na rua noua.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Plays of Gil Vicente] Reference

The value of an arroba of gold is 15,000 Brazilian cruzados (each cruzado being 50 sous).    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

Sem direção: Em pressão no 2º tempo, Iniesta avança na área, mas chuta mal cruzado.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Russian cargo vessel misses space station] Reference

Una balacera comenzó entre los agentes del FBI y los individuos del pick-up, atrapando a una familia en el fuego cruzado.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indybay newswire] Reference

Wojtyla, el peniultimo cruzado de un papado MEDIEVAL que evidenció el PODER del OPUS DEI al dirigirse al rector mayor de los SALESIANOS, EGIDIO VIGANÓ, el 21 de diciembre de 1978.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

If one, by cheating and roguery, gains a cruzado in the presence of another, the latter instantly says I cry halves, and if the first refuse he is instantly threatened with an information.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

The Brazilian reis was replaced with the milreis, the milreis by the cruzeiro, the cruzeiro by the mil cruzeiro, the mil cruzeiro by the cruzado, the cruzado by the milcruzado, and finally the real.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

I have bought this mantle of the woman almost for nothing, for it is stolen; but I am poor, as you know, I have not a cruzado; pay her therefore the price, that we may then forthwith sell the mantle and divide the gain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

When Brazil reformed its economy several years ago, the former name of its currency was changed from cruzeiro to cruzado, the meaning ` little cross 'to ` crusade' being of less importance than the similarity of the names in Portuguese.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference

He crossed the Tagus to Moita, rode thence on mules (at a "cruzado novo" apiece) up the hill of Palmella, through the pines, with flowers scattered on every hand amid the heather and sand, and found at the entrance to Palmella a fountain "with the arms of the town and an inscription, in which (he says) I was sometime amused at seeing S.P. Q. P., by the idea of the Senate and People of Palmella.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776] Reference

Brazilian cruzado?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reportage on Castro Visit to Brazil] Reference

= cruzado = crusader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novelas Cortas] Reference

= twill =, asargado, cruzado, aterlizado, diagonal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference