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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
“We are going to be paying hundreds of millions of dollars that could be invested into the communities, into parks, libraries, beaches, public social services, until 2050,” said L.A.
Davenport said the union’s initial salary proposals could have cost the county billions of dollars.
They plan to use this body to supply tens of billions of Canadian dollars in debt-financing for prefabricated home builders.
Rather than fight, some of the country’s largest firms, including Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, chose to cut deals with the administration to perform tens of millions of dollars in work for the White House.
Toxic behaviors like this make employee resignation 10 times more likely, costing businesses a trillion dollars each year.
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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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