dollar sign
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- noun
- /ˈdɑːlər saɪn/
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signo de dólar
- To calculate the total cost, you need to write the dollar sign before the amount.
- put a dollar sign
I picked up Sweet mouse Sweet spelled with a dollar sign.
- I picked up Sweet mouse Sweet spelled with a dollar sign.
- So and I wonder how many people actually like the dollar sign.
Examples
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So since we're talking about money, let's plot dollar signs instead of points.
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You may notice below that the password had a dollar sign in it, which, as you may know, is a special character in PowerShell.
Blog text (1) -
Until he saw the dollar sign in front of it, he thought it was his account number.
Fiction book (1999) -
They give me a dollar sign, an amount that they want to hit.
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Each NMEA report is a text packet, or sentence, that begins with a dollar sign and ends with a carriage return and line feed.
Blog text (1) -
He carried his lucky money clip, the oversized silver dollar sign he'd picked up in Houston.
Fiction book (1995) -
The price of the shirt is $20, and the dollar sign indicates that amount is in dollars.
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He saved up enough money to buy a car, which he proudly displayed with a dollar sign sticker.
Synonyms
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A sign $ that you put before a number to show dollars
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'dollar' (money/wealth) with 'sign' (symbol): a learner who knows both words will understand it denotes the symbol for money and, by extension, a symbol of commercialism or greed. This noun+noun compounding and the literal-to-figurative shift are cross-linguistically common and follow predictable composition patterns, so it is accessible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun dollar sign may come from old writing of the Spanish 'peso'. People often wrote a P over an S, and the two letters blended into the single $ mark we now put before numbers. So the symbol came to 'show that the amount is in dollars'.