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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dollar
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
billions of pounds/dollars etc
▪ Airlines have lost billions of dollars.
half dollar
millions of pounds/dollars etc
▪ Millions of pounds were lost in Western aid.
pay in dollars/euros etc
▪ American exporters want to be paid in dollars.
silver dollar
top dollar
▪ Computer customers are willing to pay top dollar for fast repair.
trillions of pounds/dollars etc
▪ the trillions of dollars in the bond markets
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
▪ The Federal Reserve cut dollar interest rates last week but then the Fed is professionally interested in money.
▪ These and other economic development proposals have emphasized targeting and leveraging to get maximum use of the federal dollars.
▪ Nor are more federal dollars likely.
▪ Over the past fiscal year, the school received $ 250 million in federal dollars for 1, 600 projects.
▪ More federal dollars is one possible result.
▪ Control of federal dollars is an old issue.
▪ Counties are also bracing for the brunt of federal welfare reform, expected to mark a significant loss of federal aid dollars.
▪ A presidential declaration would trigger federal aid dollars for flood victims.
strong
▪ Against the strong dollar, the pound fell to a 31-month low earlier of $ 1. 5201.
▪ A strong dollar boosts exporters' profits by allowing them to lower prices abroad, which makes them more competitive.
▪ Against the strong dollar, the pound was weaker at $ 1. 5292 compared with $ 1. 5383.
weak
▪ In London, light trading on currency markets saw the pound gain 10 points against a weak dollar to close at 1.4843.
▪ The yen is weak and the dollar strong.
▪ Sydney: The market shook off its bearish mood, boosted by a weaker local dollar.
▪ And, Mr Trittin notes, some of the buyers were large foreign financial firms, taking advantage of the weak dollar.
▪ But with a weak dollar, it will quickly burn out in faster core inflation.
▪ Profits at auto makers and other exporters could be tarnished by a weaker dollar against the yen.
■ NOUN
bill
▪ Gomez slid three one-thousand dollar bills from the wallet.
▪ Co., which makes the stock that dollar bills are printed on.
▪ He rolls up a dollar bill, and stares at it as if deliberately recalling something.
▪ Open, it yielded a few dollar bills.
▪ I got an autographed dollar bill and Viral Hepatitis I started bullying her.
▪ Once, he even found a twenty dollar bill.
▪ He hands over one crisp dollar bill and 40,000 sucres in coins and stained notes.
▪ No, there was no wallet with dollar bills.
tax
▪ Out-of-staters pay millions of tax dollars to local governments.
▪ These are our tax dollars, and we should demand accountability.
▪ When banking jobs disappear, tax dollars go with them.
▪ We want better education, better roads, and better health care, for the same tax dollar.
▪ Both county and federal governments were taking tax dollars out of my pocket and using them to discriminate against other women.
▪ Because two-thirds of those with an opinion believed the state wasted more than 20 percent of every tax dollar it collected.
worth
▪ Dixie had a peculiar talent for making many thousands of dollars worth of clothes look like she had bought them at Woolworths.
▪ They require hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new equipment and fiber optic backbone to make them two-way streets.
▪ Half a million dollars worth of furniture and art.
▪ Even a few dollars worth of prevention can save you thousands and keep you in business.
▪ By his own estimate, he has brokered a billion dollars worth of deals.
▪ He was responsible for more than 100 people and several hundred million dollars worth of mat6riel resources.
▪ Law enforcement officials in California said the men have put more than a million dollars worth of renovations into it.
■ VERB
buy
▪ Everybody who could rushed to buy dollars.
▪ When investors sell marks for yen, they generally sell marks for dollars first and then sell the dollars to buy yen.
▪ But on the streets of Yangon, it takes 125 kyats to buy a dollar.
▪ It surged after a round of automatic orders to buy dollars were executed at about 1. 4585 marks, traders said.
▪ But on the way to the bank to buy dollars she lost her wallet containing £400.
▪ Apparently they would rather spend it on buying gold and dollars which is all that keeps them going.
cost
▪ The kind that cost about a hundred dollars on the black market.
▪ It cost a half million dollars to film.
▪ Any delay to the hydroelectric project will cost millions of dollars a month.
▪ Chairs, small tables and cabinets may cost several hundred dollars.
▪ Yet fixing them will cost billions of dollars that local politicians can not raise from taxes.
▪ The procedure cost five hundred dollars, which Amelia left unpaid.
▪ The farmer said it would cost three dollars, but the girl had only thirty cents.
▪ He and Peggy Britt started with a product sample kit that cost just twenty-five dollars.
earn
▪ He had a patent and had earned millions of dollars in royalties.
▪ I earned barely ten thousand dollars a year, and James was still in college.
▪ For her latest film, Sliver, she has earned almost 3m dollars.
▪ Every day I earned approximately a dollar and a half.
▪ Till then, Antonescu earns a modest dollar from his bootleg memory bullets.
▪ It also lifts the yen-value of the money the exporters earn in dollars.
▪ Some governments of countries earning dollar surpluses supply Eurodollar deposits as a matter of policy.
▪ I was earning 4900 dollars a year teaching.
pay
▪ The balance of trade with the Soviet Union is to be paid in dollars, though loans are promised to cover that.
▪ In this case, Betty Edward says she was never paid thousands of dollars promised her by the attorneys.
▪ With only half the contents missing, it has paid me ten dollars more.
▪ Salomon Brothers paid the ten-thousand-dollar bill racked up by the wife of its mailroom clerk with three months' tenure.
▪ One pays top dollar and one gets really good people.
▪ But construction companies can not afford to pay top dollar, never mind the double rate required by Davis-Bacon, to novices.
▪ And inside the Cathedral, some one from the States paying two thousand dollars for a seat.
▪ Bay Area parents typically pay a few thousand dollars in annual tuition to send their children to preschool.
rise
▪ The 25 initial contracts, due for delivery in 1995, will rise and fall in dollar increments.
▪ State expenditure on agriculture was set to rise to dollars 294,000,000, from dollars 230,000,000 the previous year.
▪ Auto shares and some electronics exporters rose with the dollar.
▪ Pound up: The pound rose to 1.5230 dollars and 2.4829 marks from 1.5182 dollars and 2.4655 marks at the previous close.
▪ That concern may temper any gains in exporters, rising with the dollar.
▪ Worldwide, stock prices rose in dollar terms.
sell
▪ Workers in the oil industry want to sell oil for dollars.
▪ When investors sell marks for yen, they generally sell marks for dollars first and then use the proceeds to buy yen.
▪ You don't sell million dollar paintings here.
▪ He sold fifty million dollars at 5. 5 percent.
▪ Rupiah are sold to buy dollars and other currencies to purchase those imports.
spend
▪ That night I spent the ten dollars Papa had given me.
▪ But those same tourists are spending more total dollars in the city than they did four years ago.
▪ All you read about Washington is how they are going to spend those billions of dollars.
▪ He said Californians are spending millions of dollars to storm-proof their homes.
▪ I spent every last dollar as though it were my first.
▪ R guys and spend zillions of dollars out of the box trying to get a hit.
▪ Marketing firms spend millions of dollars in the effort to find out what customers exist for planned or present services and products.
▪ The group has spent thousands of dollars trying to kill the McCain-Feingold bill.
trade
▪ Here again, they must trade their yen for dollars.
▪ Most of our exports are traded in dollars.
▪ At any given moment on the trading floor billions of dollars were being risked by bond traders.
▪ Bond prices were little changed in modest trading and the dollar was mixed in a muted session.
▪ In Tokyo trading, the dollar bought 105. 57 yen, up 0. 25.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a run on the dollar/pound etc
be down to your last pound/dollar/litre etc
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
▪ I felt like a million dollars.
multimillion-pound/multimillion-dollar etc
you (can) bet your life/your bottom dollar
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A newer model could save you hundreds of dollars a year.
▪ And, Mr Trittin notes, some of the buyers were large foreign financial firms, taking advantage of the weak dollar.
▪ Fifteen dollars was clearly a low estimate.
▪ He has millions and millions of dollars.
▪ I got ten from one of my grandmas and then I got a fifty dollar bill from my other grandma.
▪ Many millions of dollars have flooded into new biotechnology companies in pursuit of interferon and other potential moneyspinners.
▪ That surprised everybody, since the administration has lately tried to talk the dollar down.
▪ Two dollars will take you half way across the city.Two seconds by the side of the road will get you a cab.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
dollar

dollar \dol"lar\, n. [D. daalder, LG. dahler, G. thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, i. e., a piece of money first coined, about the year 1518, in the valley (G. thal) of St. Joachim, in Bohemia. See Dale.]

  1. (a) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 41

  2. 5 grains. (b) A gold coin of the United States containing 2

  3. 22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.

    Note: Previous to 1837 the silver dollar had a larger amount of alloy, but only the same amount of silver as now, the total weight being 416 grains. The gold dollar as a distinct coin was first made in 1849. The eagles, half eagles, and quarter eagles coined before 1834 contained 2

  4. 75 grains of gold and 2.25 grains of alloy for each dollar.

    2. A coin of the same general weight and value as the United States silver dollar, though differing slightly in different countries, formerly current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.

    3. The value of a dollar; the unit of currency, differing in value in different countries, commonly employed in the United States and a number of other countries, including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, parts of the Carribbean, Liberia, and several others.

    Chop dollar. See under 9th Chop.

    Dollar fish (Zo["o]l.), a fish of the United States coast ( Stromateus triacanthus), having a flat, roundish form and a bright silvery luster; -- called also butterfish, and Lafayette. See Butterfish.

    Trade dollar, a silver coin formerly made at the United States mint, intended for export, and not legal tender at home. It contained 378 grains of silver and 42 grains of alloy.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dollar

1550s, from Low German daler, from German taler (1530s, later thaler), abbreviation of Joachimstaler, literally "(gulden) of Joachimstal," coin minted 1519 from silver from mine opened 1516 near Joachimstal, town in Erzgebirge Mountains in northwest Bohemia. German Tal is cognate with English dale.\n

\nThe thaler was a large silver coin of varying value in the German states (and a unit of the German monetary union of 1857-73 equal to three marks); it also served as a currency unit in Denmark and Sweden. English colonists in America used the word in reference to Spanish pieces of eight. Continental Congress July 6, 1785, adopted dollar when it set up U.S. currency, on suggestion of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Jefferson, because the term was widely known but not British. But none were circulated until 1794.\n\nWhen William M. Evarts was Secretary of State he accompanied Lord Coleridge on an excursion to Mount Vernon. Coleridge remarked that he had heard it said that Washington, standing on the lawn, could throw a dollar clear across the Potomac. Mr. Evarts explained that a dollar would go further in those days than now.

[Walsh]

\nPhrase dollars to doughnuts attested from 1890; dollar diplomacy is from 1910. The dollar sign ($) is said to derive from the image of the Pillars of Hercules, stamped with a scroll, on the Spanish piece of eight. However, according to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the U.S. Department of the Treasury:\n\n[T]he most widely accepted explanation is that the symbol is the result of evolution, independently in different places, of the Mexican or Spanish "P's" for pesos, or piastres, or pieces of eight. The theory, derived from a study of old manuscripts, is that the "S" gradually came to be written over the "P," developing a close equivalent of the "$" mark. It was widely used before the adoption of the United States dollar in 1785.\n
Wiktionary
dollar

n. 1 Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $. 2 (context by extension English) money generally. 3 Colloquially in the United Kingdom, 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.

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WordNet
dollar

  1. n. the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents

  2. a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam]

  3. a United States coin worth one dollar; "the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States"

  4. a symbol of commercialism or greed; "he worships the almighty dollar"; "the dollar sign means little to him" [syn: dollar mark, dollar sign]

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Dollar (disambiguation)

Dollar is the name of various currencies.

Dollar may refer to:

Dollar (motorcycle)

Dollar was a French motorcycle made by Ets. Delachanel in Joinville-le-Pont from 1925 to 1939.

The motorcycles were made in several models ranging from 98 cc two stroke to 750 cc overhead valve four cylinder engines. There were also one and two cylinder models, with a sheet metal frame and Cardan shaft final drive. Dollar made its own engines, but also used Chaise overhead valve engines.

Category:Former motorcycle manufacturers of France

Dollar (reactivity)

A dollar is a rooted measurement of the amount of neutron activity in a nuclear reactor. The cent is 1/100 of a dollar.

Dollar (1994 film)

Dollar is a 1994 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Raju Joseph. The film stars Mukesh, Thilakan, Baiju and Maathu in lead roles. The film had musical score by S. P. Venkatesh.

Dollar (1938 film)

Dollar is a 1938 Swedish comedy film directed by Gustaf Molander and starring Ingrid Bergman, Georg Rydeberg and Tutta Rolf.

The film's art direction was by Arne Åkermark.

Dollar

Dollar (often represented by the dollar sign $) is the name of more than twenty currencies, including (ordered by population) those of the United States, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Liberia, Jamaica and Namibia. The U.S. dollar is the official currency of East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, the Caribbean Netherlands, and for banknotes, Panama. Generally, one dollar is divided into one hundred cents.

Dollar (band)

Dollar were a pop vocal duo from the UK, consisting of David Van Day and Canadian-born Thereza Bazar. The duo were successful in the late 1970s and 1980s, achieving ten UK top 40 singles, including the Top Ten hits " Love's Gotta Hold on Me" (1979), " I Wanna Hold Your Hand" (1979), " Mirror Mirror" (1981), " Give Me Back My Heart" (1982) and " O L'amour" (1987). They achieved a certain cult and critical status with their early-1980s output produced by Trevor Horn, also including the singles "Hand Held in Black and White" (1981) and "Videotheque" (1982).

Dollar (Hong Kong coin)

The one-dollar coin is the fourth-highest and fourth-lowest denomination coin of the Hong Kong dollar.

It was first issued in 1866 as a silver coin of a diameter of 38 mm, a mass of 26.96 grams and a thickness of 2.80 mm. This issue lasted only three years with a reported mintage of 2,109,000 coins in total; separate statistics of each years mintage are unavailable.

The second introduction of a dollar coin was started in 1960 as a copper-nickel coin of 30 mm in diameter, 2.25 mm thick, and weighing 11.66 g. The circulation of this coin was ended in 1978 with the issuance of a smaller coin of 25.50 mm in diameter, 1.95 mm thickness and weighing 7.10 g.

All issues up to 1992 featured Elizabeth II on the obverse with the inscription QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND.

The reverse featured the Chinese characters and English words for 圓 (yun) one dollar, and 香港 Hong Kong, as well as an image of an English crowned lion in the centre.

In 1993 the portrait of Elizabeth II was replaced with the Bauhinia flower, this design is used to the present day but its first year's issue was made of nickel-plated steel as opposed to cupro-nickel. in 1997 a commemorative issue with a Chinese unicorn, the Qilin on the reverse was issued for the handover of Hong Kong back to China.

Dollar (surname)

Dollar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aubrey Dollar (born 1980), American actress
  • Bill Dollar (1950–1996), American radio host
  • Cameron Dollar (born 1975), former college basketball player and current head coach of Seattle University's men's basketball team
  • Caroline Dollar (born 1983), American actress
  • Charles M. Dollar, expert on the management of electronic records
  • Creflo Dollar (born 1962), American televangelist
  • Jonny Dollar (1922–1986), American country and rockabilly singer, songwriter and guitarist
  • Jonny Dollar (1964–2009), English record producer and songwriter
  • Matt Dollar (born 1977), American politician
  • Nelson Dollar (born 1961), American politician
  • Robert Dollar (1844–1932), Scottish-born lumber baron, shipping magnate and philanthropist
  • Sarway Dollar (born 1988), Sierra Leonean footballer
  • William Dollar (1907–1986), American ballet dancer
  • Beau Dollar, stage name of soul vocalist and drummer William Hargis Bowman, Jr. (1941–2011)

Category:German-language surnames

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Usage examples of "dollar".

If they held the patent on the proper adenovirus, it could be worth billions of dollars.

This is why the demographic profile of the customer is especially important when choosing the stations to which you will devote your advertising dollars.

The agribusiness was thriving in that part of the state, and ever since the Copa de Oro Dam had been constructed in the late Sixties, the recreation dollars had been piling up, too.

Leaving this place, we entered the next gaming-hall, when our man again bet nineteen dollars alce on the first card.

Again he won, and we went the length of the street, Runt wagering nineteen dollars alce on the first card for ten consecutive times without losing a bet.

There, he was appalled to find that what he believed to be such a pretty amethyst, for which he would be willing to pay three or four hundred dollars, was an alexandrite priced at five thousand.

Malvin had tried to ease Alker out of a business in which he had tied up some fifty thousand dollars, and expected to add more.

Pellicano, in turn, had allegedly subcontracted Proctor to do the dirty work for ten thousand dollars.

In perfecting this alterative compound, and likewise other standard preparations of medicine, we have made an outlay of many thousand dollars for chemical apparatus, and special machinery by the aid of which these remedies have been brought to their present perfection.

Stanford University launched a drive to raise one billion dollars in alumnae contributions.

A capitulation ensued, by which the city and port of Manilla, with several ships and the military stores, were surrendered to England, while a ransom was given for all private property, amounting to 4,000,000 dollars.

We can make three thousand dollars apiece without any risk to either of us.

Five oysters apiece for dinner and three spoonfuls of juice, a gill of water, and a piece of biscuit the size of a silver dollar.

Wilson was arrested and immediately responded with a counter charge that England had misappropriated twenty-eight hundred dollars from the Aquarian Society in England.

A notary she trusted had estimated that the land had a market value of four to five hundred dollars an arpent and if Duddy wanted all of it and could pay the price he needed twenty thousand dollars cash.