dimedime /daɪm/ noun [countable] 
PhDs are a dime a dozen nowadays.
WORD ORIGINdime
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French ‘tenth part’, from Latin decimaEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A dime taken from any other kid was a good deal.
- Even Mafia guys drop dimes on each other nowadays.
- It cost me two years of impoverishment, spending every dime on legal fees.
- Metaphors of Britain's decline have been a dime a dozen in the post-war years.
- Quarters, nickels, dimes, the whole works.
- What ever happened to dime novels?
WORD SETS
bob, nounbureau de change, nouncent, nouncentime, nounchange, verbC-note, nouncoin, verbcoinage, nounconvertible, adjectivecrown, nouncurrency, nouncurrency peg, nound., decimalization, noundenomination, nounDeutschmark, noundevalue, verbdime, noundinar, noundollar, noundoubloon, noundough, noundrachma, nounducat, nounexchange rate, nounfarthing, nounfifty, numberfirm, adjectivefiver, nounfive-spot, nounfloat, verbforeign exchange, nounFr, franc, noungold, noungold card, noungroat, nounguilder, nounguinea, nounhalf crown, nounhalf dollar, nounhalfpenny, nounha'penny, nounhard currency, nounkrona, nounkrone, nounKrugerrand, nounlegal tender, nounlira, nounmark, nounmill, nounmint, nounmint, verbmoney, nounmoney supply, nounnickel, nounnote, nounp., paper money, nounparity, nounpence, nounpennies, penny, nounpennyworth, nounpetrodollars, nounpiece, nounquarter, nounquid, nounrand, nounrate of exchange, nounrevalue, verbriyal, nounrouble, nounruble, nounrupee, nounsawbuck, nounshekel, nounshilling, nounsilver, nounsilver dollar, nounsingle, nounsingle currency, nounsixpence, nounsoft currency, nounsovereign, nounsterling, nounstrong, adjectivetenner, nounthreepence, nounthreepenny bit, nountraveller's cheque, nountuppence, nountuppeny, adjectivetwopenny, adjectiveweaken, verbyen, nounyuan, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
American English (=stop very quickly – used about cars) This truck can stop on a dime!
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN This truck can stop on a dime!· What ever happened to dime novels?
· The dime stores will close in phases by September 1998.· In December she found temporary holiday work in a Newark five-and-dime store.· Woolworth Corp. executives brought the curtain down Thursday on the venerable but money-losing chain of 400 five-and-dime stores.
VERB· When parents encounter this obstacle, they finally get off the dime and have their kids vaccinated.
· And he never paid a dime of income tax on it.· He gets young kiddies to scour the streets looking for discarded crack vials that he pays them a dime apiece for.· City Council should not pay him a dime beyond his contract.· Dunne jumped off before he had to pay his half dime.· Nobody pays a dime in Social Security taxes on capital gains.
· It cost me two years of impoverishment, spending every dime on legal fees.· He was now magic, huge, tremendously well-known and all of it without spending a dime of his campaign cash.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1a coin of the US and Canada, worth one tenth of a dollar2a dime a dozen American English informal very common and not valuable SYN ten a penny British English: - Jobs like his are a dime a dozen.
- Girls are a dime a dozen.
- Metaphors of Britain's decline have been a dime a dozen in the post-war years.
- Sam told her not to worry, jobs like that were a dime a dozen.
- So-called solutions to the longitude problem had been a dime a dozen even before the act went into effect.
PhDs are a dime a dozen nowadays.