dollar — ozdic

Collocations

5

ADJ.

against, against, bottom, cheap, low, over, weakened, weaker

The cheap dollar made American exports more competitive in international markets.

VERB + DOLLAR

bet, cash, rising, stretch, value

I had to stretch every dollar to afford rent while looking for a better job.

DOLLAR + NOUN

bill, he'll, way, yen

The dollar bill fell out of my pocket when I was walking to the store.

PREP.

from, on, than, up

The price of gas has gone up a dollar since last month.

ADV.

recently

The dollar has recently strengthened against most other major currencies in global markets.

Definitions

noun

1

Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.

But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dollar bill! You know, the thing that’s worth 500 times more than the penny!

2

Money generally.

Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.

3

A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.

4

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.

5

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.)

The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco

For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.

name

1

A small town in Clackmannanshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9698)

2

An unincorporated community in Coosa County, Alabama, United States.

3

A former community in Ontario, Canada, now part of the city of Markham.

4

A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

5

A surname.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a piece of paper money worth one dollar

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

almighty dollar

The dollar, satirically characterized as a god.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries

bottom dollar

The last of one's money; all of one's money.

bet one's bottom dollar

To be absolutely sure of something; to be certain enough of something to wager everything.

He talks about it a lot, but I would bet my bottom dollar that he has never actually been there.

top dollar

The maximum amount of money that an item, service, or worker is worth; a very high price.

Within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter.

a day late and a dollar short

Too late and too feeble to achieve the desired effect.

His apology was a day late and a dollar short.

Example Bank

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01

But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that

Wiktionary

02

Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dol

Wiktionary

03

The value of the peso has plummeted 858% against the US dollar over the past five years as the central bank printed more of the currency to help the country’s spendthrift government avoid defaulting o

Wiktionary

04

The bank will cash your fifty dollar check.

Tatoeba · #18443

05

I received a five hundred dollar advance on my pay.

Tatoeba · #19521

06

European currencies weakened against the dollar.

Tatoeba · #25655

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, dollar is marked as colloquial, UK, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.