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dollar Definition

dol·lar (däl′ər)

noun

  1. ☆ the basic monetary unit of the U.S., equal to 100 cents: symbol, $: certain other countries, as Ecuador, Panama, El Salvador, and the Marshall Islands, 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

Etymology: 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

dollar Synonyms

dollar

n.

dollar bill, silver dollar, bank note, Federal Reserve note, bill, silver certificate, single*, one*, buck*, greenback*, folding money*, one-spot*, skin*, shekel*, peso*, oner*, smacker*, smackeroo*, iron man*; see also money 1.

dollar Finance Definition

The currency unit of the United States, comprised of 100 cents. Traders shorten it to USD. The U.S. dollar is the world’s most frequently used currency in business transactions. Even transactions not involving a U.S. party often are cited in dollars. The dollar is also the name for the currency unit of Antigua, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brunei, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Turk and Caicos, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, and Zimbabwe.

dollar Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • denominate: American and Global Depository Receipts are dollar denominated securities tied to the share prices of non-American companies and traded on the American stock markets.
  • devalue: Demand for dollars gives the dollar some of it's value - less demand devalues the dollar ( to some extent ).
  • earn: Confound it, I could have earned ten thousand dollars with infinitely less trouble.
  • invest: With billions of dollars invested in incarceration and interdiction, why are treatment needs continually unmet?

Adjective modifier

  • almighty: It seems people just seem to care more about the almighty dollar than doing the right thing.
  • twenty-five: I was paid twenty-five dollars a week for helping Max Eastman get out the magazine.
  • Canadian: You buy Euro, paying with US dollars, or you sell Japanese Yens for Canadian dollars.
  • Australian: What's been done with under a million Australian dollars is impressive.
  • Bahamian: Economy The official currency is the Bahamian Dollar which the Government maintains its value on par with the US Dollar.
  • Namibian: The Namibian Dollar ( N$ ) is tied permanently 1-1 to the South African Rand ( SAR ).

Modifies a noun

  • year-over-year: For borrowers with ontario auto insurance rate dollar year-over-year quot.
  • bill: The one dollar bill you're looking at first came off the presses in 1957 in its present design.
  • chargethere: Sure we were not even bring through royal caribbean's dollar cover chargethere.
  • averaging: His description of reverse dollar cost averaging will help the retiree determine what it really means to preserve their money.

Preposition: by

refinancing: Dollars by refinancing has programs operating in a pipe bomb.

Noun used with modifier

  • multi-billion: With far greater numbers of multi-national multi-billion dollar banks in the market?
  • multi-million: Furthermore, he left a multi-million dollar estate upon his death.
  • half-million: Separate half-million dollar share artists get away car insurance uk compare figure to shoot.
  • multibillion: But it lacks the multibillion dollar oil reserves that make Iraq a potent global threat, US officials insist.
  • taxpayer: Pumping millions of of taxpayer dollars of play for.