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cruzado

[ kroo-zey-doh; Portuguese kroo-zah-doo ]

noun

plural cruzadoes, cruzados.


cruzado

/ kruˈzɑːdu; kruːˈzeɪdəʊ /

noun

  1. a former standard monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro
  2. another name for crusado
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of cruzado1

C16: literally marked with a cross, from cruzar to bear a cross; see crusade
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Los Bravos de Atlanta colocaron al jardinero Ronald Acuña Jr. en la lista de lesionados de 10 días luego que el reinante Jugador Más Valioso de la Liga Nacional se rompió el ligamento cruzado de la rodilla izquierda para perderse el resto de la temporada.

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The militias, which formed in the late 1980s to stop drug traffickers’ expansion, moved into land-grabbing and real estate more recently and control over half the territory in Rio’s metro region, according to a 2022 study from the Federal Fluminense University and the Fogo Cruzado Institute.

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Residents of the communities started hearing shootouts soon after dawn, according to Fogo Cruzado, a nonprofit organization that provides real-time reporting of gun violence.

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Otro flujo significativo de nicaragüenses también ha cruzado a Costa Rica y, combinado con los que se dirigen al norte, ha provocado que alrededor del 10 por ciento de la población de Nicaragua haya abandonado el país en los últimos cuatro años, lo que subraya la falta de fe generalizada en el gobierno del presidente Daniel Ortega.

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Carlos Cruzado, a tax expert and the president of Gestha, the tax authority technicians’ union, said prosecutors had already taken this into account as a remedy when they asked for an eight-year prison sentence.

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