How to Use international unit in a Sentence

international unit

noun

• Last year, revenue inched up 1.7% in the international unit after two years of large drops.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 5 June 2018
• The international unit for measuring mass is the kilogram, whereas the common measurement for weight in the U.S. is pounds.
  — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
• Dietary guidelines suggest most adults get at least 600 international units (IU) of vitamin D a day.
  — NBC News, 14 June 2018
• Lufthansa earlier this year abandoned an auction process for the international unit.
  — William Wilkes, Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2020
• The international unit was involved in the seizure of a yacht allegedly owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, which was among the task force’s first public actions.
  — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2022
• The company’s massive financial problems began spilling into the open early this month, and FTX was quick to halt withdrawals from its international unit.
  — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• The money-laundering section’s international unit has worked closely with the task force, officials say.
  — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2022
• In the study of respiratory illness and vitamin D, the dose was equivalent to about 3,330 international units daily.
  — Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• While that’s helped return the international unit to profit, margins are vanishingly thin.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
• The dollar would retain its status as the international unit of account for a while – but gradually, a dwindling supply would cause more and more transactions to switch to more readily available currencies.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• First, revenue from their international units will wind up looking weaker when it gets translated back into American dollars.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 30 Sep. 2019
• The chain attempted to reorganize and sell its remaining international units.
  — Fortune, 22 Mar. 2018
• If Republicans push the U.S. into default, the dollar would likely lose its position as the international unit of account, forcing the government and companies to pay their international bills in another currency.
  — Michael Humphries, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2023
• If the yuan were to become an a significant international unit of account, this would enhance China’s international position both economically and politically.
  — Michael Humphries, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2023
• At Walmart’s international unit, operating income rose 2.2% during the second quarter after adjusting for currency fluctuations.
  — Brendan Case, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024