dollar
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.
a thaler.
a peso.
British Slang. (formerly)
five-shilling piece; crown.
the sum of five shillings.
Origin of dollar
1Words Nearby dollar
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How to use dollar in a sentence
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 ReviewAs 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.
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 | DigidayByteDance has been pouring billions of dollars into TikTok annually.
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
It was a very faithful homage to a Six Million dollar Man episode.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS | Marlow Stern | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTNeither could her three-week, multi-thousand dollar stay, which was supposed to be a recovery period.
The Insurance Company Promised a Gender Reassignment. Then They Made a Mistake. | James Joiner | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is a multimillion-dollar business in which roughly 15 million fowl die a year.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity | William O’Connor | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMeanwhile, big dollar advertising campaigns have taken an explicit rainbow-hued slant.
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 | THE DAILY BEASTThe lack of bill buyers in foreign countries who will quote as low rates on dollar as on sterling bills.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsAt that time, the postage on letters from that region was very high, sometimes as much as fifty or sixty cents, or even a dollar.
The Boarded-Up House | Augusta Huiell SeamanIn the metal of the tenor several coins are visible, one being a Spanish dollar of 1742.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellIt stands at one extreme of our currency, with a dollar of gold set aside behind each dollar of paper.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsNot a dollar did he possess—not even did he have a suit of clothes any more, and wore every day his corduroys.
The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux
British Dictionary definitions for dollar
/ (ˈdɒlə) /
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
British informal (formerly) five shillings or a coin of this value
look or feel (like) a million dollars informal to look or feel extremely well
Origin of dollar
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with dollar
In addition to the idiom beginning with dollars
- dollars to doughnuts, it's
also see:
- feel like a million dollars
- look like a million dollars
- you can bet your ass (bottom dollar)
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