NIS

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See also: nis, Nis, -nis, niś, niš, Niš, ñiś, and -niß

Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Initialism of English New Israeli Shekel.

Symbol[edit]

NIS

  1. (international standards) Unofficial non-ISO 4217 currency code for the Israeli new shekel.
    Synonym: ILS (ISO 4217)

Usage notes[edit]

This code is sometimes used in place of ILS. However, this conflicts with the currency coding standardization rules in ISO 4217, as currency codes beginning with NI are reserved for Nicaragua, due to that being its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code.

English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

NIS

  1. (classified ads) Initialism of new in shrink.

See also[edit]

Noun[edit]

NIS (uncountable)

  1. (computing) Initialism of Network Information Service.
    Synonym: YP

Proper noun[edit]

NIS

  1. Initialism of Naftna Industrija Srbije, a Serbian multinational oil and gas company
  2. Initialism of National Intelligence Service, an agency of the South African government from 1980 to 1994.

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