dollar
IPA: dˈɑɫɝ
noun
- Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
- (by extension) Money generally.
- (UK, colloquial, historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
- (attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
- (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
- A small town in Clackmannanshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9698)
- An unincorporated community in Coosa County, Alabama, United States.
- A former community in Ontario, Canada, now part of the city of Markham.
- A surname.
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Examples of "dollar" in Sentences
- The UK usese sterling, not dollars.
- The dollar is the currency of Tuvalu.
- Her spending is a million dollar a day.
- It is fixed value of the yen to the US dollar.
- The dollar is the currency of the Cook Islands.
- It is also embossed on the edge of the dollar coin.
- Is the concern just over the localization of dollars
- The lender wants to lend dollars and receive repayments in dollars.
- The rate of taxation in the latter was for money tax, 42 mills on the dollar.
- Two people charged with trying to extort millions of dollars from pop star Stevie Wonder.
- The Canadian dollar had been appreciating in recent weeks amid broad U. S.-dollar selling and higher prices for some commodities.
- Its currency would be higher in comparison to a sunken dollar, hurting exports, plus its U. S.-dollar denominated bonds would suffer large losses in value.
- With us _half_ a dollar buys more than a _dollar_ buys with you -- and THEREFORE it stands to reason and the commonest kind of common-sense, that our wages are _higher_ than yours. "
- He's only allowed to bask in the limelight flashing his million-dollar smile -- which is million$ of dollar$ for them as his agenda drains million$ of dollar$ from us. nv53, re Rick Salutin:
- "Canadian Currency Credits act as an effective price adjustment during this time when the Canadian dollar is close to U. S.-dollar parity," Joe Lawrence, Porsche Canada's president and chief executive said in a statement Monday.
- If the marginal utility of an additional dollar is declining, then to optimize utility (or happiness as the author puts it), take the less utilized dollar from a high income earner and give it to a more utilized lower income earner.
- "A stronger-than-assumed Canadian dollar, driven by global portfolio movements out of U. S.-dollar assets, could act as a significant further drag on growth and put additional downward pressure on inflation," the Monetary Policy Report said.
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