dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒl.ə/
ipa: /ˈdɔː.lə/
note: in Canada
enpr: däʹlər
ipa: /ˈdɑ.lɚ/
note: in Canada
note: in the US
ipa: /ˈdɒl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈdɔl.ə/
ipa: /ˈdɒl.ə/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dollars
Etymology: Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), earlier Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the town where the original dollars were minted. The name means “(Saint) Joachim's valley”, from Joachim + Tal. Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Doublet of taler.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
text: 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!
ref: 2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
text: 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 on its debts. […] There’s another significant snag in Milei’s plan: Argentina doesn’t have enough dollars to ditch the peso.
ref: 2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business:
synonyms: buck
smackeroo
glosses: 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 $.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society:
glosses: Money generally.
glosses: A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
ref: 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952
text: For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.
ref: 1956, The Spectator, volume 197, page 342:
glosses: 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.)
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
Derived terms: a day late and a dollar short
agridollar
almighty dollar
American dollar
antidollar
Asiadollar
AUD
Aussie dollar
Australian dollar
Belize dollar
bet a dime to a dollar
bet a dollar to a dime
bet a dollar to a donut
bet a dollar to a doughnut
bet one's bottom dollar
billion-dollar grass
billion-dollar question
billion dollar question
bottom dollar
bright as a new dollar
BZD
CAD
Canadian dollar
Carolus dollar
cents on the dollar
chop dollar
cyberdollar
dollaraire
dollar-aire
dollar-and-cent
dollar auction
dollar-a-year man
dollar bill
dollarbird
dollarbuck
dollar-cost averaging
dollar cost averaging
dollar dance
dollar day
dollar democracy
dollar diplomacy
dollardom
dollared
dollarette
dollarfish
dollarisation
dollarization
dollarize
dollarless
dollarocracy
dollar of our daddies
dollar of the daddies
dollar out
Dollar Point
dollar princess
dollarship
dollar sign
dollar-sign eyes
dollar-speaking
dollar store
dollar-store
dollar up
dollar van
dollar voting
dollarwise
dollarydoo
Dorothy dollar
ecodollar
Eurodollar
five-dollar word
half-a-dollar
half-dollar
high dollar
HKD
holey dollar
Hong Kong dollar
hotter than a two dollar pistol
hundred-dollar hamburger
hundred-dollar word
junk dollar
Kiwi dollar
le dollar bean
like a million dollars
lollar
low dollar
make a dollar out of fifteen cents
megadollar
memento dollar
mighty dollar
migradollar
million-dollar
million dollar question
million-dollar question
Morgan dollar
narcodollar
New Taiwan dollar
New Zealand dollar
nondollar
one-dollar man
peace dollar
pennies on the dollar
petrodollar
phony as a three-dollar bill
pillar dollar
pink dollar
Pokédollar
rix-dollar
Sacagawea dollar
sand dollar
sea dollar
silver dollar
silver dollar fish
Singapore dollar
single as a dollar bill
sixty-four dollar question
sixty-four thousand dollar question
so-called dollar
sound as a dollar
Straits dollar
superdollar
sword dollar
Taiwan dollar
ten-dollar word
that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee
top dollar
trade dollar
two-dollar shop
two-dollar word
USD
U.S. dollar
US dollar
wager a dollar to a donut
wager a dollar to a doughnut
xenodollar
Zimbabwean dollar
Related terms: cent
dale
mill
mille
vale
valley