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fifty

fifty

1 1.0
A United States bill worth half of one hundred dollars
  • noun
  • /ˈfɪfti/
  • US
translation icon : billete de cincuenta dólares
  • Fifties and hundreds.

Examples

  • The SUIT throws him? 500. #SUIT #Fifties.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Fifties.

  • Finally, the name settled on was "Postwar Fifty Year Resolution."

    Academic text (2004)
  • Fifties.

  • Fifties.

  • Fifties and hundreds makes a pile about... [sniffles]...so big.

  • Fifties and sixties, though, when discipline problems were throwing spitballs and talking in class.

    Blog text (14)
  • And as luck would have it, the very next issue of the magazine, the March one, carried an article of mine on the notorious hangings in Baghdad involving a number of plainly innocent Jews who chose to stay and work in Iraq after the mass exodus of the early Fifties.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • I found a crisp fifty in my jacket pocket when I was getting ready to go out.

  • After winning the raffle, she received a fifty as her prize.

Synonyms

fifty dollar bill
vsfifty
  • US
1 1.0

A piece of paper money worth fifty dollars in the United States

uses a shorter spoken label for the same banknote

Compounds

23 1.0

One half of something equal to 50 out of 100 parts

14 3.0

An equal share or chance between two people

A number equal to 150

A piece of paper money worth fifty dollars in the United States

1 1.8

A coin from the United States worth fifty cents, equal to half a dollar

fifty-cent tour
  • Informal
5.5

A short, cheap guided visit that shows the main places

8.0

A joking name for a place like Puerto Rico or Canada that people think may become a US state

middle fifty
  • Specialized
8.0

The range covering the middle half of a set of numbers

A person or thing in position one hundred and fifty-five in a list

A number equal to 155

Surface Forms

fifty singular
fifties plural

Etymology

Fifty for a fifty-dollar bill simply uses the number name that means 'five tens'. The bill is called a fifty because it is 'worth fifty dollars'.