Dollar

Quick meaning: Dollar is a noun meaning (by extension) Money generally.

Meaning

(by extension) Money generally.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, Malaysia, colloquial) A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.
2. (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
3. 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 $.
4. (attributive, historical) 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.)
5. (UK, colloquial, historical) 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.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• dollars

Synonyms for dollar

Depending on context, synonyms include buck, smackeroo, clam.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include buck, clam, loonie, dime, penny, franc.

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