dollar
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈdɑːlər/
- We're spending billions of dollars.
- the dollar
- the dollar fell
- dollar exchange
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Watch on YouTubeHow can I give them millions of dollars of real value?
- How can I give them millions of dollars of real value?
- Debbie Fields is worth half a billion dollars from selling cookies.
- Also, the devaluing of the dollar, the debt ceiling.
- So the yen, the rupee, the dollar, the peso, all fake.
- They need real actual dollars to, to return.
- His family's doing, you know, billion dollar deals in the Middle East.
- They've lost almost half a trillion dollars in market cap.
- He's making millions of dollars, not flying commercial.
- That's AB billion dollars to L'Oreal in cash.
- The problem with the US dollar is you have to spend it.
- Gold printing trillions of dollars and destroying the US dollar?
- But if it shrinks just one dollar, my equity has halved.
- But we took out hundreds of billions of dollars from China.
- Car Wash that's worth billions of dollars that went public.
- Facebook is selling billions of dollars of stuff per month.
Examples
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The government of China now holds more dollar assets than the Federal Reserve.
Academic text (2008) -
I'll give you a thousand dollars if you do it.
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The problem with the US dollar is you have to spend it.
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A hundred thousand dollars to deliver this case.
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You can bet your bottom dollar on that!
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We're talking about millions of dollars, aren't we?
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They've lost almost half a trillion dollars in market cap.
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All told, Coggins owed almost three quarters of a million dollars to over one hundred individuals.
Academic text (2013) -
Over time and in absolute dollar amounts, the tax gap's size has progressively grown.
Academic text (2017) -
You can buy a coffee for just two dollars at the local café.
Synonyms
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2.6
A US one dollar bill or coin
Idioms
- Informal
To risk all your money because you are sure something will happen
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.9
The total amount of money from sales or trades in US dollars over a period
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7.0
A US one dollar coin with Susan B Anthony's picture made from 1979 to 1981 and in 1999
- Neologism
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6.8
Digital money issued by the Central Bank of The Bahamas and used as legal money in the Bahamas
A rough annual grass grown for edible seeds, animal feed, and wildlife food
How Valuable
- Archaic
1
9.9
- Archaic
3
9.9
- Archaic
1
9.9
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1.0
- US
142
1.0
- US
181
1.0
664
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dollar comes from the old word thaler, which itself comes from thal meaning 'valley' because silver coins were first made in a valley in Europe, so the name stuck. So a dollar became the name for a country's main unit of money.