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Translingual
Etymology
Initialism of English New Israeli Shekel.
Symbol
NIS
- (international standards) Unofficial non-ISO 4217 currency code for the Israeli new shekel.
- Synonym: ILS (ISO 4217)
Usage notes
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
Adjective
NIS
- (classified ads) Initialism of new in shrink.
See also
Noun
NIS (uncountable)
- (computing) Initialism of Network Information Service.
- Synonym: YP
Proper noun
NIS
- Initialism of Naftna Industrija Srbije, a Serbian multinational oil and gas company
- Initialism of National Intelligence Service, an agency of the South African government from 1980 to 1994.
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