United States dollar
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- noun
- /juːˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ˈdɑːlər/
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dólar estadounidense
- She exchanged her euros for United States dollars before her trip to New York.
- expressed in United States dollar
The stronger the United States dollar is, the more sales we want to see of Tesla's in America.
- The stronger the United States dollar is, the more sales we want to see of Tesla's in America.
Examples
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Two hundred and twenty-five United States dollars, when converted from our local currency here, for the delivery of your parcel which the draft is inside.
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The stronger the United States dollar is, the more sales we want to see of Tesla's in America.
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The United States dollar isn't what it once was.
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The Japanese yen fell against the United States dollar in morning trading, while the Australian dollar rose.
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The United States dollar and the Canadian dollar most often run neck-and-neck when it comes to trends.
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I tell you, Alvin, I'll give you 50 United States dollars for the whole caboodle.
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During the running fiscal year, the central government is allotting over 12 million United States dollars to motivate CDFIs.
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Indeed, as our economy in India continues to grow, we will someday be outsourcing our call centers to the United States because the United States dollar is continuing to decline in the world currency markets.
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Workers in tourism services accept tips previously frowned upon and even hand United States dollars to visitors willing to purchase goods that are scarce elsewhere on the island in tourist shops.
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This imbalance occurred despite a fall in the value of the United States dollar on foreign-exchange markets after 1985 that theoretically should have rendered American exports less expensive, should have made imports relatively more so, and thus should have improved the trade balance.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
The main money unit in countries like the United States, equal to 100 cents
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A US one dollar bill or coin
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A paper U.S. dollar bill used as money
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'dollar' names a monetary unit and 'United States' specifies which country’s dollar, so the meaning is the dollar belonging to the United States. This country + currency pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward noun modification, making it easily derivable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
United States dollar comes from the older word dollar, which may come from 'thaler', the name for a large silver coin made in a valley called Joachimsthal long ago. That's why this name now means the official 'unit of money' used in the United States.