dollar day

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of dollar day¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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Soon, all J. L. Turner and Son stores were renamed Dollar General, with a new slogan above the window: “Every Day Is Dollar Day.”

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But Dollar Day Sundays at Golden Gate Fields, which straddles the border of Berkeley and Albany, comes very close.

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They were similarly dismissive when she performed at Carnegie Hall, and when she died tragically at age 30, they mocked her heavily attended Winchester funeral as resembling “a mob scene … like ‘dollar day’ at the department store.”

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