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DOLLAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A symbol of commercialism or greed
Example:
the dollar sign means little to him
Synonyms:
dollar; dollar mark; dollar sign
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("dollar" is a kind of...):
symbol (an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A United States coin worth one dollar
Example:
the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("dollar" is a kind of...):
coin (a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dollar"):
Susan B Anthony dollar (a United States coin worth one dollar)
cartwheel; silver dollar (a dollar made of silver)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A piece of paper money worth one dollar
Synonyms:
buck; clam; dollar; dollar bill; one dollar bill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("dollar" is a kind of...):
bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note (a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank))
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("dollar" is a kind of...):
monetary unit (a unit of money)
Meronyms (parts of "dollar"):
cent (a fractional monetary unit of several countries)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dollar"):
Zimbabwean dollar (the basic unit of money in Zimbabwe)
United States dollar (the basic unit of money in the United States)
Tuvalu dollar (the basic unit of money in Tuvalu)
Trinidad and Tobago dollar (the basic unit of money in Trinidad and Tobago)
Taiwan dollar (the basic unit of money in Taiwan)
Singapore dollar (the basic unit of money in Singapore)
New Zealand dollar (the basic unit of money in New Zealand)
Liberian dollar (the basic unit of money in Liberia)
Kiribati dollar (the basic unit of money in Kiribati)
Jamaican dollar (the basic unit of money in Jamaica)
Hong Kong dollar (the basic unit of money in Hong Kong)
Guyana dollar (the basic unit of money in Guyana)
Grenada dollar (the basic unit of money in Grenada)
Fiji dollar (the basic unit of money in Fiji)
Dominican dollar (the basic unit of money in Dominica)
Cayman Islands dollar (the basic unit of money in the Cayman Islands)
Canadian dollar; loonie (the basic unit of money in Canada)
Brunei dollar (the basic unit of money in Brunei)
Bermuda dollar (the basic unit of money in Bermuda)
Belize dollar (the basic unit of money in Belize)
Barbados dollar (the basic unit of money in Barbados)
Bahamian dollar (the basic unit of money in the Bahamas)
Australian dollar (the basic unit of money in Australia and Nauru)
Context examples:
Palm oil, the most widely used vegetable oil in the world with total sales in 2018 topping US$30 billion dollars, contributes greatly to the GDP of several tropical countries.
(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)
"And furthermore," the son went on, "for every chicken he kills, I'll pay you one dollar gold coin of the realm."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They inventoried the required resources, then determined the economic and environmental effects of using those resources — defined in terms of energy available and expended, and normalized to cost in U.S. dollars.
(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)
Each day they worked earned them thousands of dollars in clean dust and nuggets, and they worked every day.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
There was the Xebec frigate out of Barcelona with twenty thousand Spanish dollars aboard, which make four thousand of our pounds.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
[A] day when money is likely to spill over you like dollars from heaven will be when action Mars and lucky Jupiter conjoin in your income sector on your five-star day, March 20.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I was blue ribbon at that time, and we were putting a little money by, and all was as bright as a new dollar.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Research dollars spent on bone or cartilage research.
(Bone and Cartilage Funding, NCI Thesaurus)
The gunner turned damned nasty at the last, and I had to square him with an extra hundred dollars or it would have been nitsky for you and me. ‘Nothin’ doin’!’ says he, and he meant it, too, but the last hundred did it.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a long fight between my pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets with coppers.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
