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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
giro is a noun meaning "a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office
United Kingdom
a British financial system in which a bank or a post office transfers money from one account to another when they receive authorization to do so
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for giro come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.