dollar bill
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- noun
- /ˈdɑːlər bɪl/
- US
:
billete de un dólar
- Frankie pulls five twenty-dollar bills from his jacket and fans them across his knee.
- a one-dollar bill
- a five-dollar bill
- a twenty-dollar bill
dollars essentially, but not dollar bills being slid across the table.
- dollars essentially, but not dollar bills being slid across the table.
- And what we do now is we claw back those dollar bills for attitude instead of jobs.
- So how big would a stack of a billion dollar bills be?
- You know, here is a dollar bill.
- Where's this George Bin on those dollar bills?
- He would sign it and everyone would clap and he would give a dollar bill to the top scorer in the class.
- OK, somebody give me some dollar bills.
- His name was Buddy, and he had bucks, like little dollar bills.
Examples
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He exchanged his coins for a single dollar bill at the store.
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Successful subjects were then given seven one-dollar bills and asked to sign a receipt.
Academic text (1993) -
Oh, I got a dollar bill, correct?
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I mean, did you ever look at a dollar bill, man?
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I need a glass of water, I need a credit card, I need a hundred dollar bill.
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Brian had shifted the boy in his arms and drawn two dollar bills from his pocket.
Fiction book (1991) -
I bought a round of drinks with my ten-dollar bill and left the change on the counter.
Fiction book (1992) -
Jacob reaches into his pants pocket, pulls out a twenty-dollar bill, and hands it to the driver.
Fiction book (1990) -
I extracted a twenty-dollar bill from my wallet and stuffed it into the jar.
Fiction book (1992) -
I gave him a dollar bill to pay for the snacks.
Synonyms
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A US one dollar bill or coin
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A piece of paper money or a coin worth 100 cents
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1.5
Money made of paper that people use to pay for things
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An informal US word for one dollar
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Money made of printed paper notes that a government uses
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A paper U.S. dollar bill used as money
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A paper form of money that people use to pay for things
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Paper money issued by a central bank used to pay for things
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A piece of paper money worth one dollar that you use to pay for things
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Money in printed notes that people use instead of coins
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The unit of money used in the United States, equal to 100 cents
A piece of paper used as money and issued by a central bank
A piece of paper money issued by a central bank used to pay for things
A dollar used in the United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a piece of paper currency worth one dollar' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dollar' (a unit of currency) with 'bill' (a paper note). This simple noun–noun composition follows regular compounding patterns common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Dollar bill comes from dollar, a name that came from an old silver coin called a 'thaler', and bill, a word for a written note or 'paper promise' to pay. So a dollar bill is a piece of 'paper money' that stands for one dollar.