dollar day

American  

noun

1. a sale day on which retail merchandise is reduced to a dollar or very low price.

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Etymology

Origin of dollar day

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

In fact, gold has moved independently of the dollar day to day in the past year, although overall the dollar is down a lot while gold has gone wild.

From The Wall Street Journal

“These people are on their own. They live from sale to sale, dollar to dollar, day to day, and there is no help coming.”

From Los Angeles Times

The morning after the announcement of the “Five Dollar Day,” 10,000 people assembled at the Ford plant in Highland Park, Mich., looking for jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal

More famously, Henry Ford established the assembly line, revolutionizing worker productivity and enabling higher wages through the Five Dollar Day.

From The Wall Street Journal

That gave Cal the idea to build an entire store around that eye-catching and memorable price point, a store where every day would be dollar day—Dollar General.

From Slate