Crossword clues for greenback
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garfish \Gar"fish`\, n. [See Gar, n.] (Zo["o]l.)
A European marine fish ( Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.
One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species ( T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribb[ae]us, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) Any bill that is legal tender in the US (''originally printed with green and black ink'') issued by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Reserve. 2 The United States dollar. 3 A unit of American currency issued during the Civil War by the Treasury Department.
WordNet
n. a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" [syn: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 416
Land area (2000): 7.081947 sq. miles (18.342157 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.127051 sq. miles (0.329060 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.208998 sq. miles (18.671217 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30880
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.655751 N, 84.164898 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 37742
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Greenback
Wikipedia
Greenback may refer to:
In currency:
- Greenback (money), a fiat currency issued during the American Civil War
- Greenback Party, an American political party active between 1874 and 1884 which advocated non-gold-backed government currency
Fish:
- Greenback cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki stomias), the easternmost subspecies of cutthroat trout
- Greenback flounder (Rhombosolea tapirina)
- Greenback horse mackerel (Trachurus declivis), a species of jack
- Greenback stingaree (Urolophus viridis)
- An alternate name for the Bar jack (Caranx ruber)
Other uses:
- Greenback, Tennessee, United States, a city
- "Greenbacks", a 1955 song by Ray Charles
- Celestion G-12, guitar cabinet loudspeakers
- Baron Silas Greenback, a fictional villainous toad in Danger Mouse (TV series)
Image of one dollar "Greenback",
first issued in 1862
]] Greenbacks were paper currency (printed in green on the back) issued by the United States during the American Civil War. They were in two forms: Demand Notes, issued in 1861–1862, and United States Notes issued in 1862–1865. They were legal tender by law, but were not backed by gold or silver, only the credibility of the U.S. government.
Usage examples of "greenback".
Who wants a lock without a key, a ship without a rudder, a binnacle without a compass, a check without a signature, a greenback without a goldback behind it?
In Indiana and Illinois, however, the independent parties were captured by the Greenbackers, and the Indiana party issued the call for the conference at Indianapolis in November, 1874, which led to the organization of the National Greenback party.
In state elections from Massachusetts to Kansas the Greenback and labor candidates polled from 5 to 15 per cent of the total vote, and in most cases the Greenback vote would probably have been much greater had not one or the other, and in some cases both, of the old parties incorporated part of the Greenback demands in their platforms.
Clearly many farmers were not yet convinced of the necessity of a Greenback party.
Federal land bank system which has recently gone into operation is practically the proposal of the Northwestern Alliance for government loans to farmers, with the greenback feature eliminated.
An attempt was made to raise the relative value of the greenbacks and to prepare for the resumption of specie payments by retiring the paper money from circulation as rapidly as possible.
Government and in the form of legal-tender paper redeemable only with bonds bearing a low rate of interest, these bonds in turn to be convertible into greenbacks at the option of the holder.
This measure, passed by Congress in January, 1875, had fixed January 1, 1879, as the date when the Government would redeem greenbacks at their face value in coin.
I never heard of one refusing to trade for greenbacks, and if the men on guard could not be restrained by these stringent laws, what hope could there be of restraining anybody else?
Though the laws against their dealing in the money of the enemy were still as stringent as ever, their thirst for greenbacks was not abated one whit, and they were ready to sell anything they had for the coveted currency.
Large numbers of watermelons were brought to the prison, and sold to those who had the money to pay for them at from one to five dollars, greenbacks, apiece.
Confederate money and greenbacks, all of which we now offer you, if you will but allow us to proceed on our journey, we taking our own chances in the future.
Why, a pile of greenbacks which John had thoughtlessly put away in a fire-proof safe.
He made an excuse of getting greenbacks for some English bank-notes, and then he said casually that he supposed there would be no chance of having his room on the lower deck changed for something a little less intimate with the sea.
Angel of Overtown, or what brought him and his wad of greenbacks to that church parking lot.