a paper money, silver or cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of the United States, equal to 100 cents. Symbol: $
a silver or nickel coin and monetary unit of Canada, equal to 100 cents. Symbol: $
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.
ringgit.
a thaler.
a peso.
Levant dollar.
yuan (def. 1).
BritishSlang. (formerly)
five-shilling piece; crown.
the sum of five shillings.
Origin of dollar
First recorded in 1545–55; earlier daler, from Low German, Dutch daler; cognate with German Taler, short for Joachimsthaler, a silver coin minted in Joachimsthal (Czech Jáchymov ) in Bohemia
Words nearby dollar
doline, do-little, dolium, D'Oliviera, doll, dollar, dollar area, dollar-average, dollar averaging, dollar-a-year, dollarbird
Ransomware is a tried-and-true criminal business model that generates millions of dollars in revenue every year.
How a $1 million plot to hack Tesla failed|Patrick O'Neill|August 28, 2020|MIT Technology Review
As ad dollars shift from traditional TV to streaming, CTV platforms, streaming aggregators and individual media companies are similarly vying to situate themselves to be the one managing that money.
The streaming wars have escalated over turf grabs|Tim Peterson|August 26, 2020|Digiday
After it would have likely spent tens of billions of dollars to purchase TikTok, the best thing Microsoft could do to recoup that money may be to do not much at all.
Microsoft’s hands-off handling of LinkedIn offers model for potential TikTok acquisition|Tim Peterson|August 24, 2020|Digiday
ByteDance has been pouring billions of dollars into TikTok annually.
5 questions about Microsoft’s plans for TikTok|Tim Peterson|August 5, 2020|Digiday
That would be a particular issue for the upfront advertisers that commit to spend millions of dollars with Hulu in exchange for a guaranteed number of impressions.
How Hulu’s self-serve ad tool could open streaming’s floodgates|Tim Peterson|July 20, 2020|Digiday
There may be no entrapped pool of human talent left on earth with the dollar value of Cuban athletes.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind|Brin-Jonathan Butler|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In just a few hours on Tuesday, the dollar exchange rate collapsed from 64 to 80 rubles before climbing back to about 68.
How Crimea Crashed the Russian Economy|Anna Nemtsova|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Pakistan was dancing for the U.S. dollar and joined up with it without any dignity.
Pakistani School Killers Want to Strike the U.S.|Sami Yousafzai, Christopher Dickey|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At currency auctions, it traded at around 64.45 rubles to the dollar and 78.8 to the euro.
How Crimea Crashed the Russian Economy|Anna Nemtsova|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In Tuesday trading alone, it plunged by more than 20 percent against the U.S. dollar.
Putin Can’t Bully or Bomb a Recession|Daniel Gross|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A dollar is 254⁄5 grains of a metal compound coined, of which nine parts are pure gold and one part a hardening alloy.
Principles of Political Economy|Arthur Latham Perry
The sketching easel that is good for anything has never been made to sell for a dollar and a half.
The Painter in Oil|Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
One day I met the Kid there, looking for a dollar as hard as a financier.
The Autobiography of a Thief|Hutchins Hapgood
The dollar was made the unit of account and payment, and subdivisions were made in a decimal ratio.
Albert Gallatin|John Austin Stevens
Even in the off season, when dogs was down, Nig could get his dollar a day, but his masters couldn't get fifty cents.
The Magnetic North|Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
British Dictionary definitions for dollar
dollar
/ (ˈdɒlə) /
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
Britishinformal(formerly) five shillings or a coin of this value
look or feel (like) a million dollarsinformalto look or feel extremely well
Word Origin for dollar
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
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Words related to dollar
currency, greenback, buck, clam, certificate, ace, bill, note, single, cucumber, one-spot, folding money, legal tender, bank note