noun
- Plural of deutschmark; the former monetary unit of Germany before the adoption of the euro in 2002.
Usage: historical; often capitalized
Examples
- Before 2002, Germans used deutschmarks as their currency.
- The exchange rate between deutschmarks and dollars fluctuated throughout the 1990s.
- My grandmother still has a collection of old deutschmarks in a drawer.
- Tourists visiting Germany in the 1980s had to exchange their money for deutschmarks.
- The deutschmark was replaced by the euro in a historic monetary transition.