dime
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- noun
- /daɪm/
- US
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moneda de diez centavos (EE. UU.)
- They needed the whole dime worse than she did.
- pay a dime
- spend a dime
- nickels and dimes
You know, I don't don't spend your last dime on it, but.
- You know, I don't don't spend your last dime on it, but.
- Just put a tiny like dime size amount and apply.
- But you pay back every last dime to every creditor.
- They needed the whole dime worse than she did.
- I had this huge bag of Dimes, quarters and half dollars.
- And I go to my bank and I would buy silver Dimes and quarters, not nickels.
- It's because they debase the silver that like the quarter, the Dimes and the half dollars.
- So, you know, and we're paying them barely a dime.
- You instantly get a velvety foundation texture by mixing this in says just a dime size amount.
- Tiny little dot, like the size of a a nickel a dime.
- I'll pour about a dime size amount of it and it covers my whole body.
- I didn't spend a, a, a, a dime or a minute of my life helping others.
Examples
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Instead of being happy you got a dime, try to stretch that dime into a dollar.
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I found a dime on the sidewalk while walking to the store.
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Look at this guy started from nothing, nothing, not a dime to his name.
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And it was a dime to get in.
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We went through every dime your mother and I managed to save.
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Buddy, can you spare a dime?
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But you pay back every last dime to every creditor.
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"I went 18 months without bringing home a dime," says Pearce, who is married with five children.
Academic text (2004) -
You're not gonna lose a dime.
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Grabbing the cone, I dropped a dime into his open palm.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
A coin worth ten cents, like a dime
Idioms
- Informal
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To move very quickly and with exact control when changing direction or plans
Compounds
- Archaic
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A cheap exciting paperback story of adventure popular in late 1800s America
How Valuable
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dime comes from an old word decima that means 'tenth', like the start of 'decimal' and 'decade', so a dime is one-tenth of a dollar, 10 cents.