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dollar
[ dol-er ]
noun
- a paper money, silver or cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of the United States, equal to 100 cents. : $
- a silver or nickel coin and monetary unit of Canada, equal to 100 cents. : $
- any of the monetary units of various other nations, as Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, East Timor, Fiji, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Liberia, New Zealand, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zimbabwe, equal to 100 cents.
- Also called ringgit. a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Brunei, equal to 100 sen.
- a thaler.
- a peso.
- British Slang. (formerly)
- five-shilling piece; crown.
- the sum of five shillings.
dollar
/ ˈɒə /
noun
- the standard monetary unit of the US and its dependencies, divided into 100 cents
- the standard monetary unit, comprising 100 cents, of the following countries or territories: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kiribati, Liberia, Malaysia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, and Zimbabwe
- informal.(formerly) five shillings or a coin of this value
- look or feel (like) a million dollars informal.to look or feel extremely well
Word History and Origins
Origin of dollar1
Word History and Origins
Origin of dollar1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with dollars , also see feel like a million dollars ; look like a million dollars ; you can bet your ass (bottom dollar) .Example Sentences
The defendants, whose cases are not related to each other, were able to fraudulently collect thousands of dollars in federal disaster-relief funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to the Justice Department.
Meant as a temporary measure, the so-called Nixon shock of 1971 caused the dollar to drop, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates established after the end of World War II.
China invests billions of dollars in infrastructure projects across Central and South America.
It is also a way for municipalities to focus their dollars on crime locally, they say.
They said the sex abuse settlement can be paid with bonds and the county’s plush rainy day fund, a seldom-touched pot worth nearly a billion dollars.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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