2. The monetary unit of the Union of South Africa.
[PJC]
{The Rand}, a rocky gold-bearing ridge in South Africa, about thirty miles long, on which Johannesburg is situated; also, the gold-mining district including this ridge. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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