fiver
Americannoun
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a five-dollar bill.
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British. a five-pound note.
noun
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(in Britain) a five-pound note
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(in the US) a five-dollar bill
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Etymology
Origin of fiver
Example Sentences
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"A lot of the mums here would tell you even if they were getting an extra fiver a week, they would be grateful for anything."
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Stick a fiver on Rachel Reeves referring back to that first Budget as "fixing the foundations" of the economy and public services, this week then being the moment to start, "rebuilding Britain".
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
"I didn't even check here to be fair. Down there it's a fiver to park, you get a bus - the bus is nice. It's regular," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025
However, she had suggested her daughter try "offering a fiver for it... which she would not do as it was a charity shop".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2023
Two of the men still squatted near the Primus stoves, serving corn mush and fiver.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
My former Boston Globe colleague Marie Franklin helped spark this effort; she has blogged about how she saved over $40,000 in less than 15 years just by not spending fivers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
There are £63bn worth of notes in circulation in the UK: if you wanted to lop 1% off that, you could simply cancel half of all fivers without warning.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2016
Yet, figures obtained by the BBC reveal that fewer than 3% of the UK's cash machines dispense fivers - even though the technology is available to do so.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2011
Barclays, home of the first ever cash machine, says it has 600 ATMs in its network that dispense fivers, but has no current plans to increase the number.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2011
The notes weren't fivers, nor tenners; they were all twenty-pound notes.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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