NIS
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
Initialism of English New Israeli Shekel.
Symbol edit
NIS
- (international standards) Unofficial non-ISO 4217 currency code for the Israeli new shekel.
Usage notes edit
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 edit
Adjective edit
NIS
See also edit
Noun edit
NIS (uncountable)
- (computing) Initialism of Network Information Service.
- Synonym: YP
Proper noun edit
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.