qtr
7.4
A coin worth twenty-five cents in the United States and Canada
- noun
- /kwɔːrtər/
- US
:
moneda de 25 centavos
- I found a qtr in my pocket.
Examples
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She found a shiny qtr under the couch while vacuuming the living room floor.
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Do you have a qtr for the parking meter?
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He dropped a qtr into the vending machine to buy a snack.
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She paid the bus fare with a qtr.
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You can find a qtr near the vending machines where you can get a soda for 25 cents.
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The price of the candy bar is exactly one qtr, which is a quarter of a dollar.
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He handed me a qtr to buy some gum from the store.
Synonyms
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1.0
A US or Canadian coin worth 25 cents
is the shortened written form used as an abbreviation for that coin
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Etymology
Qtr is short for quarter, which comes from Latin quartus and originally means 'one fourth'. In the US and Canada a quarter is a 25-cent coin (one fourth of a dollar), so qtr can mean that coin.