Dollar
['dɒlə] or ['dɑlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a symbol of commercialism or greed; 'he worships the almighty dollar'; 'the dollar sign means little to him'.
(noun.) a United States coin worth one dollar; 'the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States'.
(noun.) a piece of paper money worth one dollar.
(noun.) the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents.
Editor: Zeke--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.
(n.) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.
(n.) A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.
(n.) The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values.
Checker: Lucille
Definition
n. a silver coin (= 100 cents) of U.S.A. Mexico Singapore &c. The U.S.A. dollar = about 4s. 2d. sterling.—adjs. Doll′ared; Doll′arless.—ns. Dollaroc′racy; Doll′arship.
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Examples
- The Moors have some small silver coins and also some silver slugs worth a dollar each. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He found that after paying his hotel bill he would have less than half a dollar in the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- At that day fifty dollar gold pieces, not the issue of the government, were common on the Pacific coaSt. They were called slugs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When they parted, the senator put into his hand a ten-dollar bill. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In the end, however, the complainant had nothing to show for all his struggle, as the master who made the accounting set the damages at one dollar! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I'd like to have a dollar for every time I've slept in that thing in the snow. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That it was a deep-sea fish was indicated by the small eye, which was about the size of a silver dollar. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The lack of such a place never prevented experimentation, however, as long as he had a dollar in his pocket and some available hole in the wall. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And once there was a young man in America who gambled till he had lost his last dollar. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There's many of 'em who can't spend a dollar to your guinea, my boy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I'd never grudge a dollar that was spent on that. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It rises to the surface in slogans like human rights above property rights, the man above the dollar. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You can buy enough velvet in Genoa for twenty-five dollars to make a five hundred dollar cloak in New York--so the ladies tell me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I will risk another dollar on him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To this question a strict regard for truth compels the answer that they have not been benefited at all, not to the extent of a single dollar, so far as cash damages are concerned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I've saved you some thousands of dollars, at different times, by taking care of your hands,--that's all the thanks I get. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Hundreds of cities and millions of dollars have been thus saved from destruction. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Clear waste, sir, of a thousand dollars, just for want of management,--there's where 't is. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That was a slander; they were broken to the saddle when I got them and cost nearly twenty dollars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Forty thousand dollars was named and accepted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The result has been the saving of vast amounts of maritime property, estimated at many millions of dollars yearly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At the end of the interview the owner had offered Edison the position of manager at a salary of three hundred dollars a month, and Edison had accepted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It was exploited under the powerful patronage of a syndicate of newspaper men, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in perfecting it before any practical results were obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1847 the subject was again taken up for serious consideration, the work begun in 1860, and finished in 1869, at a cost of ￡20,500,000, or more than a hundred million dollars. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Twelve dollars--twelve dollars a day for flowers? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It is a lucrative source of emolument, and sometimes brings into the national treasury as much as thirty-five or forty dollars a year. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They have also a small gold coin worth two dollars. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yes, it will be worth at least as much as a thousand dollars--when you get it done. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yes; I heard Grant lost five or six dollars' worth of horses the other day, he replied. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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