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sou-sou

Meaning of "sou-sou" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SOU-SOU

Probably of W African origin, influenced by French sou small coin, via Creole.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SOU-SOU

ˈsuːsuː


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOU-SOU

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sou-Sou is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SOU-SOU MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sou-sou

A sou-sou is a West African form of rotating savings and credit association, a type of informal savings club arrangement between a small group of people. The basic principle is that each member of the group makes a standard contribution to a common fund once per time period. Then each period the total contributions are dispersed to a single member of the group. The recipient changes each period in a rotating fashion such that all the members of the group are eventually recipients.

Definition of sou-sou in the English dictionary

The definition of sou-sou in the dictionary is an arrangement made among friends whereby each person makes regular contributions to a fund, the money being drawn out periodically by each individual in turn.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SOU-SOU

babassu · Gansu · Hamamatsu · Ieyasu · Iyeyasu · Jiangsu · jujitsu · Lao-tzu · lasso · masu · Matsu · ninjutsu · sault · shiatsu · shih-tzu · Sioux · sou · susu · Takamatsu · tiramisu

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOU-SOU

sou · sou´wester · souari · soubise · soubise sauce · soubrette · soubrettish · soubriquet · soucar · souchong · Soudan · Soudanese · souffle · sough · sought · sought-after · souk · soukous · soul · soul food

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOU-SOU

after you · chou · couscousou · Dou · fou · good on you · Guangzhou · Hangzhou · lou · not with you · ou · Ouagadougou · poutassou · see you · thank you · thank-you · thou · what have you · you · Zhou

Synonyms and antonyms of sou-sou in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sou-sou» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SOU-SOU

Find out the translation of sou-sou to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sou-sou from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sou-sou» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

SOU- SOU
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

sou - sou
570 millions of speakers
en

English

sou-sou
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

Sou - Sou
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدانق - الدانق
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Су - Су
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

sou -sou
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

Sou-Sou
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

sou -sou
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Sou-sou
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

sou - sou
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

SOU - SOU
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

우 - 우
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Sou-sou
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sou sou -
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பிரான்சு நாட்டு நாணய வகை-பிரான்சு நாட்டு நாணய வகை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

सौ-स्यू
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

metelik etmez
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

sou - sou
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

sou - sou
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Су - Су
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

sou - sou
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sou - sou
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Sou - Sou
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sou - sou
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sou -sou
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sou-sou

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOU-SOU»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOU-SOU»

Discover the use of sou-sou in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sou-sou and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean ...
Also important are the sou-sous that exist within the factory. The sou-sou organizations in the factory are for TT$10, $20, $50 and $100 per week. The captains are the people who run the sou-sou, and in Trinidad they are almost always women ...
Kevin Yelvington, 2010
2
New York Magazine
The term sou-sou comes from the French word sou, and the plan is an effective banking system which has been in operation in the West Indies since the days immediately after slavery when the ex-slaves put their sous together to buy land or ...
3
Modern Arabic Drama: An Anthology
One moment: I'll just give cAli his money and come back. SOU SOU Wait a minute .. . cALI Please Sou Sou, let her just give me my money and she'll be right back. I'm in a hurry to go to the cinema. FATIMA Have you got half a dinar? SOU SOU ...
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Roger M. A. Allen, 1995
4
Annual Report
New Jersey. State Board of Assessors. Companies Taxed Upon Capital Stock — 00000. NAME OF COMPANY. Capital Stock. Tax. Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Son Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou ...
New Jersey. State Board of Assessors, 1908
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the ...
Southern Express Company v. Hilton, 94/450. Southern Express Company v. Pope, 5 A. 689. Southern Mining Co. 1;. Brown, 107/264. Southern Mutual Insurance Co Turnley, 100/303. v. Sou. Sou Sou Sou. Sou. Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou Sou ...
Georgia. Court of Appeals, 1928
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Reforming Urban Land Policies and Institutions in Developing ...
In Trinidad and Tobago, the land that was purchased by Sou Sou Land Limited was relatively cheap because it had not been zoned for development in the country's National Physical Development Plan. In the view of Sou Sou Land Limited, ...
Catherine Farvacque, Patrick McAuslan, 1992
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Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On ...
susu|swamp bloodwood quick errand when I heard one of those “seussing” noises behind me which women automatically block out. (EX-2 14 Oct 1990:27) susu susu, sou-sou, sue-sue n A cooperative savings system in which each person ...
Lise Winer, 2009
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Chinese Cantonese tones English Dictionary
... yáhn sòng söng 50115 31111 /ngáuh sóng jihk 50115 jong 50115 13111 56115 1611115 56115 11311 50115 sât 56115 yàm sou sòu sou sou sou sou bá sou bá sou bá sóubät chèng /chìng sou с111 5611 с110 5011 с1161 5011 deih 504 ...
UP Numlake, 2013
9
PC Mag
... conmaNo_szzs INACTIVE DISPATCH_KEY KEY_COUNT DISPATC8_TABLE DI8PATCH_END INPUT INITIALISE ENDS EQU BQU D8 EQU on os os os os IOU IQ" DB sou sou sou sou sou sou sou sou sou sou sou sou sou sou sou DB DB ...
10
Library of Congress Subject Headings
ES7] UF Enzymology, Sou SoU enzymes ВТ SoU biochemistry SoU erosion (May Subd Geog) UF Accelerated erosion ВТ Erosion NT Sou piping (Hydrology) Universal soU loss equation — Climatic factors (May Subd Geog) [S627.C] BT Soils ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 1993

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOU-SOU»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sou-sou is used in the context of the following news items.
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ART|マリアン・ミュラ氏のインスタレーション展『SOU-SOU』開催
スイス人アーティスト、Marianne Mueller(マリアン・ミュラ)氏の最新作品集『STAIRS ETC』の発行を記念したインスタレーション展『SOU-SOU』が、1月24日(土)より東京・ ... «OPENERS, Jan 15»
2
The money was a sou-sou hand
He took pictures of myself and Councillor Smally...he knows very well that Smally just collect a sou-sou hand and if he took that picture to the political leader of ... «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jul 13»
3
When People Make Their Own Banks
Bullock is part of a bank-like savings club called a sou-sou. In the last one Bullock was in, 13 people promised to pitch in $100 each every two weeks. And every ... «NPR, Jun 13»
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Is 'Sou-Sou' for You? Africa's Savings Pool Scheme Lands in America
The idea's called a "sou-sou," and while it may be unfamiliar here, the concept's actually pretty old hat in some countries of West Africa. It works like this: «DailyFinance, Mar 12»
REFERENCE
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