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Dollar

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Noun

1. dollar

the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents

2. buck, clam, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill

a piece of paper money worth one dollar

3. dollar

a United States coin worth one dollar

Example Sentences:
'the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States'

4. dollar, dollar mark, dollar sign

a symbol of commercialism or greed

Example Sentences:
'he worships the almighty dollar'
'the dollar sign means little to him'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dollar

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noun
1. 
the standard monetary unit of the US and its dependencies, divided into 100 cents
2. 
the standard monetary unit, comprising 100 cents, of the following countries or territories: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kiribati, Liberia, Malaysia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, and Zimbabwe
3. British informal
(formerly) five shillings or a coin of this value
4.  look or feel (like) a million dollars

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Dollar

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noun
1.  US
the basic monetary unit of the U.S., equal to 100 cents
symbol, $: certain other countries, as Ecuador, Panama, El Salvador, and the Marshall Islands, have officially adopted this monetary unit
2. 
any of the standard monetary units of various other countries, as of Australia, Barbados, and Canada
see the table of monetary units in the Reference Supplement
3. 
the Mexican peso
4. 
a coin or piece of paper money of the value of a dollar
5.  Obsolete
a Spanish coin (piece of eight) used in American Revolutionary times

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Dollar

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n.
1. See Table at currency.
2. A coin or note that is worth one dollar.
3. Any of various historical silver coins similar to the taler, such as a piece of eight.
4. Money spent or available to be spent: boardwalk shops competing for the tourist dollar.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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