See Also: Cominform(encyclopedia)
Cominform(dictionary)
Tight money or dear money(finance)
MONEY(finance)
Hot money(finance)
Rag Money(money)
money(dictionary)
mad money(dictionary)
money(1)(dictionary)
Pin Money(money)

Yard (money) and Cominform (sh)


Yard (money)


Definition: [crh] Slang for one billion currency units. Used particularly in currency trading, e.g., for Japanese yen since one billion yen equals approximately US$10 million. It is clearer to say, "I'm a Definition: buyer of a yard of yen," than to say, "I'm a buyer of a billion yen," which could be misheard as "I'm a buyer of a million yen."







Cominform (sh)




in full Communist Information Bureau

Agency of international communism founded under Soviet auspices in 1947.

Its original members were the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, France, and Italy, but Yugoslavia was expelled in 1948. The Cominform's activities consisted mainly of publishing propaganda to encourage international communist solidarity. It was dissolved by Soviet initiative in 1956 as part of a Soviet program of reconciliation with Yugoslavia.