dollar
/ˈdɑ.lɚ/
Frequency: 4.59 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
noun
A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
British usage; Colloquial
noun
Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
noun
A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
name
A small town in Clackmannanshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9698)
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short."
- "Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dollar bill! You know, the thing that’s worth 500 times more than the penny!"
- "The value of the peso has plummeted 858% against the US dollar over the past five years as the central bank printed more of the currency to help the country’s spendthrift government avoid defaulting on its debts. […] There’s another significant snag in Milei’s plan: Argentina doesn’t have enough dollars to ditch the peso."
- "Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent."
- "The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco"
- "For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɑ.lɚ/
- British English: /ˈdɒl.ə/
Usage
- Colloquial
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable