złoty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: złoty
form: złotys
form: złote
form: złotych
form: złoties
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish złoty.
Senses: examples: text: The lower house of the Diet stood fast upon the Senate's slashing of the budget by 500,000 złoties and its opposition to two members of the Cabinet, twice thrust upon it.
ref: 1926 October 1, Wireless to The New York Times, “Polish Cabinet Out; Diet Wins Victory; Pilsudski’s Power Is Shaken by Budget Cut and Opposition to Two Ministers. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025:
text: The Polish Government has decided to levy an export duty of 15 złoty per 100 kilos on rye, as a result of the poor crops in 1923 and the high prices which have prevailed during the last few months.
ref: 1927 March 13, “Notes on Trade and Industry Abroad”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025:
text: A special working fund administered by the State Agricultural Bank was established to meet all expenses connected with the measures necessary for improving the agrarian structure of the country. In the beginning it amounted to 900,000,000 złotys. After a cancellation of part of its obligations due on small farms, the balance by December 31, 1938, was more than 667,000,000 złotys.
ref: 1945, Bernadotte E[verly] Schmitt, editor, Poland, Berkeley, Calif.; Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, pages 228–229:
text: Accordingly, if the estate is worth 90,000 złotys and the deceased leaves a widow A, and two children B and C, and B has already received 60,000 złotys, the calculation is as follows:- the value of a notional estate equals 150,000 złotys (90,000 + 60,000) and each share amounts to 50,000 złotys.
ref: 1973, D. Lasok, editor, Polish Civil Law, volume I, Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, →ISBN, page 270:
text: Once in the field, the Sonderdienstmann received 90 złotys per month with a supplement of 11 złotys per month when on active duty outside the normal duty station. By the summer of 1941, Sonderdienst men were receiving benefits, including free housing and uniforms as well as an untaxed food allowance of 2.70 złotys per day.
ref: 2005, Peter Black, “The Sonderdienst”, in Pieter M. Judson, Marsha L. Rozenblit, editors, Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (Austrian and Habsburg Studies; volume 6), New York, N.Y.; Oxford: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 250:
text: At one extreme, Symeon Szydłowski, the castellan of Żarnów, suggested exempting parish priests with less than 3,000 złotys from the new tax. At the other, Suchodolski protested that poor nobles with families on 500 złotys a year would also find defenders.
ref: 2012, Richard Butterwick, The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788–1792: A Political History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Previously, penalties for illegal felling could reach over 15,000 złote per tree. Today, they cannot exceed 500 złote per tree and 200 złote per bush.
ref: 2017 May 11, Natalia Sawka, “Mothers Breastfeeding in Defense of Mother Nature”, in Political Critique, Warsaw: Krytyka Polityczna, archived from the original on 15 May 2017:
text: The Eastern Shield aims to protect Poland in case of further deterioration of the situation. The project’s cost is over 10 billion złotych.
ref: 2024 October 16, Łukasz Zając, “Polish Border Fortifications Under Testing: "Eastern Shield"”, in Jędrzej Graf, editor, Defence24.com, Warsaw: Defence24 Group, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2024:
glosses: Alternative form of zloty.