Meaning of Lollar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. a currency deposit recorded as a US dollar in the Lebanese banking system that cannot be withdrawn as such due to the Lebanese liquidity crisis, instead being available only for exchange for Lebanese pounds at massively reduced rates.

Examples

“Many scramble for ways to use their trapped “Lollars,” fearing they could eventually lose them completely.”

“Bekdache next names as problems the lollar/dollar and Lebanese pound currency conundrum and the issue of having to settle claims in the same currency and same category (cash or check) in which a policy premium had been paid;”

“Millions of American dollars deposited by citizens are frozen in banks, accessible only in local currency at ruinous exchange rates. These lost dollars are known colloquially as “lollars,” or LOL. The LTA is now printing physical lollars, adorned with art by Tom Young, a Beirut-based painter whose work focuses on Lebanon’s crises and corruption.”

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