The dollar is the unit of money used in the USA, Canada, Australia, and some other countries.It is represented by the symbol $. A dollar is divided into one hundred smaller units called cents.
She gets paid seven dollars an hour.
The government is spending billions of dollars on new urban rail projects.
The dollar is also used to refer to the American currency system.
In early trading in Tokyo, the dollar fell sharply against the yen.
2.
See top dollar
dollar in British English
(ˈdɒlə)
noun
1.
the standard monetary unit of the US and its dependencies, divided into 100 cents
2.
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
3. British informal
(formerly) five shillings or a coin of this value
4. look or feel (like) a million dollars
Word origin
C16: from Low German daler, from German Taler, Thaler, short for Joachimsthaler coin made from metal mined in Joachimsthal Jachymov, town now in the Czech Republic
dollar in American English
(ˈdɑlər)
noun
1. US
the basic monetary unit of the U.S., equal to 100 cents
symbol, $: certain other countries, as Ecuador, Panama, El Salvador, and the MarshallIslands, have officially adopted this monetary unit
2.
any of the standard monetary units of various other countries, as of Australia, Barbados,and Canada
3.
the Mexican peso
4.
a coin or piece of paper money of the value of a dollar
5. Obsolete
a Spanish coin (piece of eight) used in American Revolutionary times
Word origin
LowG & Fl daler < Ger thaler (now taler), contr. < Joachimsthaler, coin made (orig. in 1519) at (St.) Joachimstal, Bohemia < (St.) Joachim + thal, tal, valley: see dale
More idioms containing
dollar
you can bet your bottom dollar
the 64,000 dollar question
Examples of 'dollar' in a sentence
dollar
Precious metals miners joined the rally as gold rose against a weaker dollar.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A stronger dollar and rising bond yields are bad for gold.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
That would drive up the value of the dollar and push US import prices higher still.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Suppliers of coffee, which is priced in dollars, have also been hit by poor harvests.
The Sun (2017)
Worry No 2 is a stronger dollar.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Miners, though, missed out on the rally as metals prices weakened thanks to the stronger dollar.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Now the average citizen of a bourgeois nation such as France or Japan spends around one hundred dollars a day.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Miners took a breather after their recent run, despite metals prices gaining against a weaker US dollar.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
China is gradually releasing its currency from its dollar peg.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
These bar the company from raising money in dollars or euros.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Wildlife tourism puts a dollar value on wildlife.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They finished up one dollar per barrel.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They also buy in dollars rather than sterling.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
We are paying thousands of dollars to try to have one anyway.
Christianity Today (2000)
It is also likely to benefit in the next few months from a stronger dollar.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Gold was formerly as synonymous with money as the dollar is today.
Richard Fortey THE EARTH: An Intimate History (2004)
One has drawn dollar signs on his helmet.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The hairdo also had a dollar sign shaved into the back of it.
The Sun (2012)
Nor would it be sensible to divert billions of dollars to defence systems when there is no identifiable threat.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The world may get to have a reformed international financial system but the dollar will still be at its core.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But gold bulls say the price slump was caused largely by forced selling by hedge funds and a strong dollar.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
America will have to provide assurances that it will not print so much money that the dollar drops in value.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It also said the weak dollar had prompted a rush of armchair speculators buying the currency through its foreign exchange kiosks.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
China has about two trillion dollars of currency reserves, a crucial asset at the present time.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
When the dollar is weak, your pound goes further when it is converted into dollars.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They feel like they can't lose another ten dollars to pay for their medication.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But the anchor currency would be not only the euro: it would also be the dollar.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It has grown from a few hundred million dollars in the early 1980s to over $100 billion today.
Geoffrey A. Moore INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE (2001)
Iran has also accepted payment for oil in rupees, rather than dollars, the standard currency for oil deals.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In other languages
dollar
British English: dollar /ˈdɒlə/ NOUN
The dollar is a unit of money in the USA, Canada, and some other countries. It is represented by the symbol $.
She earns seven dollars an hour.
American English: dollar
Arabic: دُولاَر
Brazilian Portuguese: dólar
Chinese: 美元
Croatian: dolar
Czech: dolar
Danish: dollar
Dutch: dollar
European Spanish: dólar
Finnish: dollari
French: dollar
German: Dollar
Greek: δολάριο
Italian: dollaro
Japanese: ドル
Korean: 달러
Norwegian: dollar
Polish: dolar
European Portuguese: dólar
Romanian: dolar
Russian: доллар
Latin American Spanish: dólar
Swedish: dollar
Thai: เงินดอลลาร์
Turkish: dolar
Ukrainian: долар
Vietnamese: đô la
All related terms of 'dollar'
dollar area
the area of the world consisting of countries where the US dollar is the main trading currency
dollar bill
a piece of paper money worth one dollar
dollar gap
the difference , measured in US dollars , between a country's receipts or imports from the United States (or dollar area country) and its payments or exports to those countries
dollar rate
a variable amount of foreign currency quoted against one unit of the US Dollar
dollar sign
punctuation symbol ($ ), used to indicate a price in dollars
half-dollar
(in the US) a 50- cent piece
rix-dollar
any of various former Scandinavian or Dutch small silver coins
sand dollar
any of various flattened disclike echinoderms of the order Clypeasteroida, of shallow North American coastal waters : class Echinoidea (sea urchins )
top dollar
If you pay top dollar for something, you pay a lot of money for it.
silver dollar
A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
constant dollar
a dollar valued according to its purchasing power in an arbitrarily set year and then adjusted for price changes in other years so that real purchasing power can be compared by giving prices as they would presumably be in the base year
commodity dollar
the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
dollar diplomacy
a foreign policy that encourages and protects capital investment and commercial and financial involvement abroad
half-a-dollar
a British silver or cupronickel coin worth two shillings and sixpence (now equivalent to 12 1 ⁄ 2 p), taken out of circulation in 1970
dollar (cost) averaging
see → average (sense 11 )
the almighty dollar
money regarded figuratively as a god , or source of great power
fast buck
money made easily or quickly and sometimes unscrupulously
bet one's bottom dollar
to bet one's last dollar ; bet everything one has
bet one's bottom dollar on
to be absolutely sure of (one's opinion , a person, project, etc)
sixty-four dollar question
a crucial question or issue
the 64,000 dollar question
a very important question that is very difficult to answer
you can bet your bottom dollar
said to emphasize that you are absolutely certain that something will happen or that something is true