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Dollar

Definition: Dollar

Dollar

Noun

1. The basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents.

2. (United States) a piece of paper money worth one dollar.

3. A US coin worth one dollar; "the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States".

4. A symbol of commercialism or greed; "he worships the almighty dollar" or "the dollar sign means little to him".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dollar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Dollar

DomainDefinition

Computing

Dollar $ Common: ITU-T: dollar sign. Rare: currency symbol; buck; cash; string (from BASIC); escape (when used as the echo of ASCII ESC); ding; cache; INTERCAL: big money. (1995-03-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Finance

The monetary unit of the United States. (references)

Literature

Dollar Marked thus $, either scutum or 8, a dollar being a "piece of eight" [reals]. The two lines indicate a contraction, as in lb.
The word is a variant of thaler (Low German, dahler; Danish, daler, and means "a valley," our dale. The counts of Schlick, at the close of the fifteenth century, extracted from the mines at Joachim's thal (Joachim's valley) silver which they coined into ounce-pieces. These pieces, called Joachim's-thalers, gained such high repute that they became a standard coin. Other coins being made like them were called thalers only. The American dollar equals 100 cents, in English money a little more than four shillings. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Nuclear Energy & Physics

A unit of reactivity equal to that amount of reactivity required to make a reactor critical on prompt neutrons only, and therefore equal to the effective delayed neutron fraction for that reactor. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Australian dollar

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Australian dollar (currency code AUD) is the official currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Norfolk Island and Tuvalu.

Overview

Each Australian Dollar is composed of 100 cents. The smallest coin in current circulation is equal to five cents.

The Australian dollar was introduced in February 14, 1966, not only replacing the Australian pound (long since distinct from the pound sterling) but also introducing a decimal system. Robert Menzies wished to name the currency "the Royal", and other names such as "the Austral" were also proposed.

It is freely convertible and the exchange rate has been "floating" (set by market forces) since 1983, when its value was approximately equal to the US dollar, and soon after significantly reduced in value against major world currencies. In 2002, the value of one Australian dollar went below a value of 50 US cents. As of October 2003, the Australian dollar is worth about 70 US cents.

Banknotes

Since the 1980s, Australian banknotes are made of plastic, specifically polypropylene. These have a transparent 'window' with a holographic image as a security feature. The first of these notes was experimental $10 note showing Aboriginal scenes. Australian currency was the first in the world to use such features in currency. Prior to this, the currency was produced in paper.

All Australian notes are issued by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Australian coins are produced by the Royal Australian Mint.

Issues of Currency

There have been two basic issues of currency. The first paper issues of Australian dollars, issued in 1966, featured the following persons:

The plastic dollar bills and coins that became effective throughout the 1980s and 1990s and are currently in use are as follows:

The fractional coinage features the monarch on the obverse side, and Australian native animals on the reverse:

Copper one cent and two cent coins were abolished in 1991.

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Brunei dollar

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Brunei dollar (ISO 4217: BND) is pegged to the Singapore dollar (SGD) at a 1:1 trade ratio. Singapore is Brunei's major trading partner.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Brunei dollar."

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Dollar

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The dollar is the name of the official currency in several countries, dependencies and other regions, including Australia, Canada, the East Caribbean, Liberia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. It is represented by the symbol $, placed before the dollar amount (in French Canada, after).

The dollar was also in use in Scotland during the 17th century, and there is a claim that it was invented at the University of St Andrews.

The name is related to the historic currencies Tolar, in Bohemia, Thaler, in Germany and Daler, in Sweden. The name thaler (from thal, valley) originally came from the guldengroschen (great gulden, being of silver but equal in value to a gold gulden) coins minted from the silver from a rich mine at St. Joachimstal (St. Joachim's Valley) in Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). The name Spanish dollar was used for a Spanish silver coin, the peso, an 8 real coin, which was widely circulated during the 18th century in the Spanish colonies in the New World. The use of the Spanish dollar and the Maria Theresa thaler as legal tender for the early United States is the reason for the name of that nation's currency. The word dollar was in use in the English language for the thaler for about 200 years prior to the American Revolution. Spanish dollars, or pieces of eight as they were called, were in circulation in the 13 colonies that became the United States and legal tender in Virginia.

See also:

Petro-dollars is money from petroleum.

Dollar were a light pop duo from the UK, who had a series of hit records in the late 1970s. They were David Van Day and Theresa Bazar.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dollar."

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New Zealand dollar

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The New Zealand dollar, abbreviated NZD or NZ$ and often informally known as the Kiwi dollar, is the official currency of New Zealand and the Cook Islands. It was introduced in 1967 to replace the New Zealand pound, when the country decimalised its currency.

The NZD, like the US Dollar, is made up of 100 cents. Currency is available as both notes and coins. The available denominations are, in descending order:

Coins and Notes

Lack of 1 and 2 cent coins

Prior to 30 April, 1990, one and two cent coins were also legal tender, but were withdrawn amid some controversy. However, modern non-cash transactions (such as electronic transactions and chequess) need not be multiples of five cents, and New Zealanders rapidly adapted to the change.

The lack of one and two cent coins means that cash transactions are rounded to the (normally) nearest five cents. Some larger retailers (notably, one supermarket chain), in the interests of public relations, elected to always round down (so that $4.99 becomes $4.95 instead of $5.00). Alternatively many retailers rounded their prices to five cents to avoid the issue entirely - so a New Zealand shopper often encounters products for sale at prices like $4.95; and virtually all retailers accept electronic transactions though the EFTPOS system.

Plastic Fantastic

New Zealand notes, since 1999, have been printed on a plastic polymer instead of conventional paper. There was a slight controversy, but this move was mostly met with curiosity by the public. Such polymer notes have many advantages, notably a photocopy can effortlessly be distinguished from the real thing by touch, and many Kiwis have been thankful they can go though a washing machine with no ill effects. (Note that the picture below is out of date, and is of the previous paper issue.)

Value

The value of the New Zealand dollar has been floating, i.e., determined by the financial markets, since March 4, 1985. Since then its value has been in the range of about 0.40 - 0.72 United States dollars, with a particularly low valuation during 2001. From July 9, 1973 until the float its value had been determined from a trade-weighted basket of currencies. Between December 23, 1971 and July 9, 1973 its value was linked to the United States dollar. Before December 23, 1971 it was linked to British sterling.

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "New Zealand dollar."

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United States dollar

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Denomination ($)Portrait
1George Washington
2Thomas Jefferson
5Abraham Lincoln
10Alexander Hamilton
20Andrew Jackson
50Ulysses S. Grant
100Benjamin Franklin
500†William McKinley
1000†Grover Cleveland
5,000†James Madison
10,000†Salmon P. Chase
100,000†Woodrow Wilson
†Not in general circulation.

The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. It is also widely used as a reserve currency outside of the United States. Currently, the issuance of currency is controlled by the Federal Reserve Banking system. The most commonly used symbol for the U.S. dollar is the dollar sign ($). The ISO 4217 code for the United States Dollar is USD.

Overview

The U.S. dollar is divided into 100 centss. Originally, it was further divided into 1000 millss, a currency unit used until World War II made aluminum too expensive to be used for the coins (and rising inflation made them essentially worthless).

The U.S. is one of many countries that use a currency named dollar: see dollar.

When currently issued in circulating form, denominations equal to or less than a dollar are emitted as coins while denominations equal to or greater than a dollar are emitted as Federal Reserve notes. (Both one dollar coins and notes exist; although the note form is significantly more common.)

Modern U.S. dollar banknotes have been printed by the Federal Reserve since 1929. Notes above the $100 denomination ceased being printed in 1946. These notes were used primarily in inter-bank transactions. However, with the advent of electronic banking, they became useless.

History

The dollar was unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States on July 6, 1785. This was the first time a nation had adopted a decimal coinage system.

Until 1974 the value of the United States dollar was tied to and backed by either silver, gold, or a combination of the two. From 1792 to 1873 the U.S. dollar was freely backed by both gold and silver at a ratio of 15:1 under a system known as bimetallism. Through a series of legislative changes from 1873 to 1900, the status of silver was slowly diminished until 1900 when a gold standard was formally adopted. The gold standard survived, with several modifications, until 1974.

Bimetallism

The U.S. Coinage Act of 1792 established the United States Mint and set the following definition for a dollar:

"Dollars or Units—each to be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four sixteenths parts of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard silver."

It also pegged the rate of exchange between pure silver and pure gold at 15:1. Thus the dollar was defined to be 371.25 grains of silver or 24.75 grains of gold and could be exchanged at the mint for either silver or gold in this 15:1 ratio. This standard, known as bimetallism, was used through much of the nineteenth century.

In 1834, due to a drop in the value of silver, the 15:1 ratio was changed to a 16:1 ratio. This created a new US dollar that was backed by 1.50 grams (23.2 grains) of gold. However, the previous dollar had been represented by 1.60 grams (24.75 grains) of gold. The result of this revaluation which was the first ever devaluation of the US dollar reducing its gold value by 6%.

The discovery of large silver deposits in the Western United States in the late 19th century created a political controversy. At one side were agrarian interests who wanted to retain the bimetallic standard which would result in a cheaper dollar, which would allow farmers to more easily repay their debts. At the other end, there were Eastern banking and commercial interests who advocated sound money and a switch to the gold standard. This issue split the Democratic party in 1896 and led to the famous cross of gold speech given by William Jennings Bryan.

In 1878 the Bland-Allison Act was enacted to provide for freer coinage of silver. This act required the government to purchase between $2 million and $4 million worth of silver bullion each month at market prices and to coin it into silver dollars. This was, in effect, a subsidy for politically influential silver producers.

The Gold Standard

Bimetallism persisted until March 14, 1900 with the passage of the Gold Standard Act, which established:

"...the dollar consisting of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains of gold nine-tenths fine, as established by section thirty-five hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be the standard unit of value, and all forms of money issued or coined by the United States shall be maintained at a parity of value with this standard..."

Thus the United States moved to a gold standard and made gold the sole legal tender coinage of the United States set the value of the dollar to $20.67 per ounce of gold. This made the dollar convertible to 1.5 grams (23.2 grains)—the same convertibility into gold that was possible on the bimetallic standard.

During the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt revalued the dollar to 35 per troy ounce of gold. This represented a drop in the value of the US dollar. It fell to only 0.89 grams (13.7 grains) of gold. The US dollar had thus been devalued almost 41% by government decree.

Under the post-World War II Bretton Woods Agreement, all other currencies were valued in terms of United States dollars, and were thus indirectly linked to the gold standard. The need for the US government to maintain both a $35 per ounce market price of gold and also the conversion to foreign currencies caused economic and trade pressures. By the early 1960s, compensation for these pressures started to become too complicated to manage.

In March 1968, the effort to control the private market price of gold was abandoned. A two-tier system began. In this system all central bank transactions in gold were insulated from the free market price. Central banks would trade gold among themselves at $35 per ounce but would not trade with the private market. The private market could trade at the equilibrium market price and there would be no official intervention. The price immediately jumped to $43 per ounce. The price of gold touched briefly back at $35 near the end of 1969 before beginning a steady price increase. This gold price increase turned exponential through 1972 and hit a high in this year of over $70. By that time floating exchange rates had also begun to emerge which indicated the de facto dissolution of the Bretton Woods Agreement. The two-tier system was abandoned in November 1973. By then the price of gold had reached $100 per ounce.

In the early 1970s, inflation caused by rising prices for imported commodities, especially oil, and spending on the Vietnam War, which was not counteracted by cuts in other government expenditures, combined with a trade deficit created a situation in which the dollar was worth less than the gold used to back it.

In 1972, the United States reset the value to 38 dollars per troy ounce of gold. Because other currencies were valued in terms of the United States dollar, this failed to resolve the disequilibrium between the United States dollar and other currencies. In 1975 the United States began to float the dollar with respect to both gold and other currencies. With this the US was, for the first time, on a fully fiat currency.

The sudden jump in the price of gold after central banks gave up on controlling it was a strong sign of a loss of confidence in the US dollar. In the absence of a gold market valued US dollar, investors were choosing to continue to put their faith in actual gold. Consequently the price of gold rose from $35 in 1969 to almost $900 in 1980. Fearing the emergence of a specie gold-based economy separate from central banking, and with the corresponding threat of the collapse of the US dollar, the US government approved several changes to the trading on the COMEX. These changes resulted in a steep decline of the traded value of precious metals from the early 1980s onward.

US Federal Reserve notes - "Greenbacks"

Fiat Standard

Today, like the currency of most nations, the dollar is fiat money without intrinsic value. Some argue that it has no backing and would be entirely worthless, except for the fact that people have been persuaded to use and accept it as if it had worth.

According to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, as of July 31, 2000, there were $539,890,223,079 in total currency in worldwide circulation, of which $364,724,397,100 was in the $100 denomination.

As at July 2003, it has been estimated that if all the gold held by the US government was again required to back the circulating US currency, an ounce of gold would need to be worth around $25,000.

Greenbacks

The federal government began issuing currency that was backed by Spanish dollars during the American Civil War. These bills were known as greenbacks for their color and started a tradition of the United States printing its money in green. In contrast to the currency notes of many other countries, all Federal Reserve notes are the same color. They have been printed in the same green color for most of the twentieth century.

Modern U.S. currency, regardless of denomination, is 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and 0.0043 inches thick. A single bill weighs about one gram, and costs approximately 4.2 cents for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to produce.

On May 13, 2003, the Treasury announced that it would introduce color into the $20 bill, the first U.S. currency since 1905 to have colors other than green or black. The move was another attempt at stemming the tide of counterfeiting. The new bills entered circulation on October 9, 2003. New $50 and $100 notes will be introduced in 2004 and 2005, each with different color schemes. The Treasury said it will update Federal Reserve notes every 7 to 10 years to keep up with counterfeiting technology.

Some techniques used today are little blue and red threads (look closely at the dollar), the number in the lower right corner changing from green to silver when viewed from different angles, and a water mark that says US # (a number for whatever amount of dollars this note represents). Most notes contain a watermark with a picture of a historical figure.

"The soundness of a nation's currency is essential to the soundness of its economy. And to uphold our currency's soundness, it must be recognized and honored as legal tender and counterfeiting must be effectively thwarted,'' Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said at a ceremony unveiling the $20 bill's new design. The last redesign of the U.S. dollar was in 1996.


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Criticisms of U.S. banknotes

Despite the addition of color to US currency, critics hold that it will still be straightforward to counterfeit the bills. They cite that the ability to reproduce color images is well within the capabilities of modern color printers, most of which are affordable to many consumers. These critics suggest that the Federal Reserve should make use of holographic panels, such as some Australian currency and the euro banknotes do, which are much more difficult and expensive to forge.

Critics also state that bills should employ braille codes to make the currency more usable by the vision impaired, since the denominations are all the same size, and cannot be distinguished from one another non-visually.

International use of the U.S. dollar

A few nations outside of US jurisdiction use the United States dollar (USD) as their official currency. These nations include Ecuador, Palau, East Timor, Panama and the Federated States of Micronesia. Argentina used a fixed 1-1 exchange rate between the Argentine peso and the US dollar from 1991 until 2002. The exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the United States dollar has also been fixed since the early 1980s, and the renminbi used by the People's Republic of China has been informally and controversially pegged against the dollar since the mid-1990s.

The dollar is also used as the standard unit of currency in international markets for commodities such as gold and oil.

At the present time, the United States dollar remains the world's foremost reserve currency, primarily held in $100 denominations. According to economist Paul Samuelson, the overseas demand for dollars allows the United States to maintain persistent trade deficits without causing the value of the currency to depreciate and the flow of trade to readjust.

The majority of American money is actually held outside of the United States.

Origin of the name Dollar

The name for the United States dollar comes from the Spanish dollar (which itself derived from the thaler) which was the silver coin widely circulated in the United States during the time of the American Revolutionary War. Although private banks issued currency that was backed in Spanish dollars, the Federal government didn't do so until the American Civil War.

See also: Table of historical exchange rates

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "United States dollar."

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United States dollar coin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Dollar coins have been minted in the United States in both gold and silver versions.

Silver dollars were minted in the United States beginning in 1794.

It is hoped by the government that the new issue of the Sacagawea dollar coin will be popular in order to replace the dollar bill. Coins are more durable than bills and for highly used denominations such as $1 the wear and tear on the notes make coins more economical to produce.

See also United States Mint and United States coinage

List of Designs

Silver Dollar Types

Gold Dollar Types

External Links

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Dollar

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
FJI:Suva:Fiji dollarEnglishRepublic of FijiGeography, Law
dol.EnglishDollarFinance

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Dollar

Synonyms: buck (n), clam (n), dollar bill (n), dollar mark (n), dollar sign (n), one dollar bill (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dollar

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dearness

Pay too much, pay through the nose, pay too dear for one's whistle, pay top dollar.

End

Noun: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail; (rear); verge; (edge); tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard.

Indication

Sign, symbol; index, indice, indicator; point, pointer; exponent, note, token, symptom; dollar sign, dollar mark.

Money

Noun: money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets;(property); wealth; supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash; mammon.

Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs.

Penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper; two-cent piece three-cent piece, half-dime, nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel, dime, disme, mercury dime, quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, Eisenhower dollar, Susan B. Anthony dollar.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Dollar

English words defined with "dollar": Abstract unit ♦ bad, Be, buck ♦ cartwheel, clam, counterfeit, crispness ♦ debased, degraded, depreciate, depreciation, devaluate, devalue, devalued, dime, dollar bill, dollar mark, dollar sign, dollar volume ♦ equal, Eurodollar, even, Every now and then ♦ fake, family Stromateidae, fifty-cent piece, Fippenny bit, forge, forged ♦ good ♦ half dollar, Harvest fish ♦ Milreis, monetary unit ♦ nickel ♦ one dollar bill ♦ pull ♦ quarter ♦ Sarcoscypha coccinea, scarlet cup, shoeshine, silver dollar, Stromateidae, Susan B Anthony dollar ♦ To make up, Trade dollar, turnover ♦ undervalue, unit, Unit of measure, unit of measurement ♦ weakness. (references)
Specialty definitions using "dollar": a franklin, Almighty Dollar, Asian dollar ♦ Base period price, Bed-rock, begrenzte Fütterung ♦ Certificates, CI$, CITRULLUS LANATUS, Clearing House Interbank Payments System, COB, compensating balance, Constant Dollars, Contract escalation, core deposit intangibles, current value accounting ♦ Dairy Export Incentive Program, Deductions, dollar bond, dollar reverse repurchase agreement ♦ fair value, finance charges, fixed income investment, FOREIGN-EXCHANGE DEALER, foreign-exchange trader, formula investing, forward dollars, freely usable currency ♦ gezügelte Fütterung ♦ interest margin, interest rate spread ♦ Key Currency, King Cash ♦ London Interbank Offered Rate, lower of cost or market ♦ merchant, mortgage loans outstanding, Multiple use ♦ net interest-earning assets, net worth, NOBILITY ♦ Only, option-adjusted spread, original issue discount ♦ purchased credit card relationships ♦ Relative Value Scales, repurchase agreement, required reserves, restriktive Fütterung ♦ Source Document ♦ verhaltene Fütterung ♦ WHS. (references)
Etymologies containing "dollar": Thaler. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Dollar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (dollar), Albanian (buck, dollar, greenback), Breton (dollar), Danish (dollar, dollars), Dutch (dollar), Estonian (dollar), Flemish (dollar, dollars), French (buck, dollar, greenback, smacker), French Canadian (dollar), German (buck, dollar, dollars, smacker), Hawaiian (dollar), Irish (dollar), Luxembourgish (dollar), Manx (dollar), Norwegian (dollar, dollars), Swedish (buck, dollar, dollars), Tagalog (dollar).

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Modern Usage: Dollar

DomainUsage

Screenplays

They said it was a million dollar wound, but the army must keep that money 'cause I still haven't seen a nickel of that million dollars (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Three dimes, a hundred dollar bill and 87 ones (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg)

I got this dress at a thrift store for one dollar. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

Pay more then a dollar. Third, the second y'all get back from Cambodia, move your bum ass outta your mom's house (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)

Ray, if you had a dollar and you spent fifty cents, how much would you have left over (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

Lyrics

If I only had a dollar, for ev'ry song I've sung (LODI; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

And make million dollar deals for Brat (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

She'll never sell out, she never will, not for a dollar bill ("She Works Hard for the Money"; performing artist: Donna Summer)

About a workin' all summer just to try to earn a dollar ("Summertime Blues"; performing artist: Eddie Cochran)

Don't want a silver dollar (Good Luck Charm; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Clever

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. (references; author: unknown)

Funny how a dollar can look so big when you take it to church, and so small when you take it to the store. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)

Last of the Two Dollar... (1970)

Wir verbauen 3 x 27 Millia. Dollar in einen Angriffsschlachter (1970)

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

The Million Dollar Collar (1967)

Song Titles

Ten Dollar Bill (performing artist: Under Suspicion)

Greenback Dollar (performing artist: The Washington Squares)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Dollar

DomainTitle

References

  • Million Dollar Saloon, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Dollar General Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Family Dollar Stores, Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Dentistry: Building Your Million Dollar Solo Practice (reference)

  • Duns Million Dollar Disc 3.4 - Cd-rom (reference)

  • Million Dollar Ideas For Boosting Fixed Operations Production (reference)

  • Proceedings Of The Million Dollar Round Table (reference)

  • Trade Weighted Value Of The Dollar (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Dollar

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Photo Album: Dollar

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A Panamanian Indian lady dressed in her finery A quick learner - it cost a dollar to take the picture Also selling molas. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. A keyhole urchin - a close relative of the sand dollar. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Contract and finance specialists from the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Top Dollar 2000 team aim their 9mm guns at their targets during competition held Dec. 7 to 11 in Gulfport, Miss. (P.; photo by Lynn Gonzales)..

Senior Airman Julie Maxfield and 1st Lt. Karl Falk from the Air Force Material Command Top Dollar 2000 team work their way through the Tough Nut. All teams had 25 minutes to run the 15-obstacle course during competition held Dec. 7 to 11 in Gulfport, Miss.

The ghost of a dollar or the bankers surpize. Credit: Library of Congress.

The thousand dollar butterfly. Credit: Library of Congress.

Walter, if you can make a dollar go that far, I may recommend you to aid Secretary Morgenthau!. Credit: Library of Congress.

King Edward the VII of England chases a one dollar coin, followed by President Taft and group of men. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dollar Bay and Portage Lake, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lake Superior smelter and dock, Dollar Bay, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Dollar
 

"Sand Dollar" by Erik Dungan
Commentary: "Sand dollar on the shore."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Dollar".

PlayCaption
A silver dollar dropped onto a hard, flat surface.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Dollar

AuthorQuotation

Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Andrew Carnegie

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Josh Billings

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Oliver Goldsmith

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Washington Irving

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Dollar

TitleAuthorQuote

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

The dollar, he thought, had sunk for ever

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Genuflexion before the idol or the dollar atrophies the muscle which walks and the will which goes

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Costs half a dollar a day to stay there

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dollar

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Of course, no dollar figure can describe the human costs to spinal cord injured people and their families. (references)

Every dollar spent on screening and treatment saves $12 in complications that result from untreated chlamydia. (references)

Business

The dollar exchange rate is responsive to market forces. (references)

A bottle of Gamma hair color, for example, costs only 20 rubles, or less than a dollar. (references)

This growth is also partly related to a projected stable exchange rate with the U.S. dollar. (references)

Economic History

Marshall Islands

Official currency: U.S. dollar. (references)

Kiribati

Currency: Australian dollar (A$). (references)

Belgium

This trend is due to the strong dollar. (references)

Political Economy

NICARAGUA

The cordoba to dollar rate is adjusted daily. (references)

BOLIVIA

Banks offer dollar accounts and make loans in dollars. (references)

HAITI

Dollar accounts are available at local commercial banks. (references)

Trade

Cote D'ivoire

Dollar based transactions may take longer. (references)

Kazakhstan

It is fully convertible with the U.S. dollar. (references)

Singapore

The unit of legal tender is the Singapore dollar. (references)

Travel

Ireland

Its value changes with respect to the U.S. dollar. (references)

Singapore

Singapore's unit of currency is the Singapore dollar. (references)

Taiwan

The New Taiwan dollar (NT$) is the official currency. (references)

Worker Rights

Micronesia

The minimum hourly wage for employment with the national Government is $1.68. The U.S. dollar is the country's legal currency. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Dollar

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

The body of President Lincoln was barely even cold before someone got the idea to stamp his face on a circular piece of copper and sell it for a hundredth of a dollar.

Dominick Dunne

Well, I mean shocked with delight, I have to tell you, because I mean, you know, I always think that the defendant who gets the million dollar lawyer is going to beat the local, overworked, underpaid prosecutor, but it didn't work out that way this time.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Dollar

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ulysses S. Grant

1869-1877To protect the national honor, every dollar of Government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract.

Calvin Coolidge

1923-1929Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963While the current deficit lasts, ways will be found to ease our dollar outlays abroad without placing the full burden on the families of men whom we have asked to serve our Flag overseas.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969This administration must and will preserve the present gold value of the dollar.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977For every dollar saved in cutting the growth in the Federal budget, we can have an added dollar of Federal tax reduction.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981A strong dollar helps in the fight against inflation.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989We are not asking them to replace discarded and often discredited government programs dollar for dollar, service for service.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Let's raise the minimum wage by a dollar an hour over the next two years.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Dollar

"Dollar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "Dollar" is used about 2,022 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.95%2,0214,269
Noun (proper)0.05%1339,140
                    Total100.00%2,022N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Dollar

The following table summarizes the usage of "dollar" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
DollarLast name3,0004,116
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Dollar

CountryName
USA

Dollar General Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Dollar

Expressions using "dollar": a five dollar bill ♦ american dollar ♦ Anthony dollar ♦ Asian dollar ♦ australian dollar ♦ Bahamian dollar ♦ Barbados dollar ♦ Belize dollar ♦ Bermuda dollar ♦ bottom dollar ♦ Brunei dollar ♦ canadian dollar ♦ Cayman Islands dollar ♦ Chop dollar ♦ dollar appreciation ♦ dollar basis ♦ dollar bill ♦ dollar cost averaging ♦ dollar depreciation ♦ dollar devaluation ♦ dollar diplomacy ♦ Dollar fish ♦ dollar gap ♦ dollar inheritance ♦ dollar mark ♦ Dollar Point ♦ dollar revaluation ♦ dollar sign ♦ dollar volume ♦ dominican dollar ♦ Eisenhower dollar ♦ fall of the yen against the dollar ♦ Fiji dollar ♦ green dollar ♦ Grenada dollar ♦ Guyana dollar ♦ half dollar ♦ Hong Kong dollar ♦ hundred dollar bill ♦ Jamaica dollar ♦ jamaican dollar ♦ Kiribati dollar ♦ liberian dollar ♦ Namibian dollar ♦ Namibische dollar ♦ new Zealand dollar ♦ one dollar bill ♦ parity of the dollar ♦ pay top dollar ♦ sand dollar ♦ silver dollar ♦ Singapore dollar ♦ Susan B Anthony dollar ♦ Taiwan dollar ♦ the almighty dollar ♦ top dollar ♦ trade dollar ♦ Trinidad and Tobago dollar ♦ turn a nice dollar ♦ Tuvalu dollar ♦ twenty dollar bill ♦ two dollar bill ♦ United States dollar ♦ US dollar ♦ Zimbabwean dollar. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "dollar": dollar-based, dollar-denominated, dollar-earning, dollar-exchange, dollar-hoover, dollar-hungry, dollar-mark, dollar-millionaires, dollar-orientated, dollar-priced, dollar-pulling, dollar-rich, dollar-rouble, dollar-sensitive, dollar-short, dollar-sign, dollar-sterling.

Ending with "dollar": billion-dollar, euro-dollar, five-dollar, hundred-dollar, lira-dollar, mark-dollar, million-dollar, multi-billion-dollar, multi-million-dollar, non-dollar, one-dollar, petro-dollar, pound-dollar, sterling-dollar, ten-dollar, thousand-dollar, twenty-dollar.

Containing "dollar": billion-dollar grass, billion-dollar-club, cent-wise-dollar-foolish, five-dollar bill, Million-dollar-a-film-dudley.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dollar

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dollar car rental

4,409

us dollar

248

dollar rent a car

4,265

dollar swing

227

dollar

2,625

dollar general store

226

silver dollar city

2,419

exchange rate dollar

221

dollar store

1,557

dollar stretcher

211

the euro dollar

939

million dollar home

203

dollar general

916

dollar conversion

202

canadian dollar

903

family dollar store

202

creflo dollar

892

exchange rate canadian dollar

196

dollar tree

799

morgan dollar

188

dollar bill

745

dollar sign

186

dollar rental

718

dollar to pound

185

family dollar

572

euro dollar exchange rate

175

dollar bank

535

dollar tree store

173

sand dollar

525

dollar rent

169

silver dollar

473

two dollar bill

164

morgan silver dollar

377

pound to dollar conversion

155

six million dollar man

322

euro dollar future

151

creflo dollar ministry

272

dollar msn

145

euro dollar conversion

263

100 dollar bill

141
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dollar

Language Translations for "dollar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

dollar. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

dollar (buck, greenback). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الدولار الأميركي, ‏دولاري العملة, ‏دولار (buck). (various references)

   

Basque

  

dolarra (dolar, the dolar, the dollar). (various references)

   

Breton

  

dollar. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пет шилинга, долар (buck, plunk). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

dòlar. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

美元, 元 (first, primary). (various references)

   

Croatian

  

dolare, dolara, dolar. (various references)

   

Czech

  

dolar (buck). (various references)

   

Danish

  

dollar (dollars). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dollar. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

dolaro. (various references)

   

Estonian

  

dollar. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

dollari. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

دلار (Buck). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

dollari. (various references)

   

Flemish

  

dollar (dollars). (various references)

   

French

  

dollar. (various references)

   

French Canadian

  

dollar. (various references)

   

Galician

  

dólar. (various references)

   

German

  

dollar (buck, smacker). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δολάριο. (various references)

   

Haitian Creole

  

dola (dollars). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

dollar. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

דולר. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dollár (buck, simoleon). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

dollarinn (The dollar). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

dolar. (various references)

   

Irish

  

dollar, dhollar. (various references)

   

Italian

  

dollaro (buck, smacker). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ドラ息子 (being pegged to the dollar, Dolby, Dolby surround, dolce, dolcissimo, Doline, doll, dollar clause, dollar peg, dollar shift, dollar shock, dollar shop, dollar usance, dolly, dolman sleeve, dolmen, dolphin kick, doria, Dorian, Dortmund, dream, dreamer, dreaming, dreamy, dribble, drifter, drill, drink, drip coffee, driven, durian, lazy son, profligate son), 弗 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ドル (doll), どる. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

달러. (various references)

   

Luxembourgish

  

dollar. (various references)

   

Manx

  

dollar, crooin (corona, crown, diadem). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

dollar (dollars). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

dòlò. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ollarday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

dólar (plunk, smacker). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

dólar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dolar (buck). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

доллар (buck, bucks, smacker). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dolar (buck, smacker). (various references)

   

Slovene

  

dolar. (various references)

   

Somali

  

doolar (dollars). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dólar (buck, plonk, plunk, smacker). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

dala. (various references)

   

Swahili

  

dola (dollars). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dollar (buck, dollars). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

dolyar, dollar. (various references)

   

Tahitian

  

tar‘. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ดอลลาร์ (หน่วยเงินตรา). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

dolar (buck, greenback, potato, rock, smacker). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

долар (buck, piastre). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thần tiền khu vực đô la chính sách đô la, đồng curon thần đô la. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

doler. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dollar

Derivations

Words beginning with "dollar": dollars. (additional references)

Words ending with "dollar": nondollar, petrodollar. (additional references)

Words containing "dollar": petrodollars. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dollar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dalar, dalla, Dallae, Dallari, Dallmayr, Davlar, dellar, Deolali, dilla, Dilwara, dobler, dolard, doler, Dolerw, dollard, dollaro, dollea, dollei, dollery, dollier, Dollor, dopler, Dorlhac, Doula, Doulab, Dulari, dullor, Dunlarg, Lollar, odlar, ollar, oller, tolar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Dollar"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dollar" (pronounced dÄ"ler)
4d Ä" l ernondollar.
3-Ä" l ercollar, holler, scholar, squalor.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Dollar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-l-l-o-r"

-1 letter: aldol, allod, droll, loral.

-2 letters: doll, lard, load, lord, olla, orad, oral, road, roll.

-3 letters: ado, all, dal, dol, dor, lad, lar, oar, old, ora, rad, rod.

-4 letters: ad, al, ar, do, la, lo, od, or.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-l-l-o-r"
 

+1 letter: bollard, collard, dollars, pollard.

 

+2 letters: arillode, arilloid, beadroll, bollards, carolled, collards, collared, dorsally, falderol, landlord, pollards, roadkill.

 

+3 letters: arillodes, armadillo, beadrolls, billboard, coralloid, cordially, corralled, falderols, landlords, lowlander, modularly, nondollar, overalled, patrolled, pollarded, roadkills, romeldale, thralldom, ultracold, wallboard.

 

+4 letters: allargando, armadillos, bankrolled, billboards, caracolled, cordillera, coveralled, deplorable, deplorably, dilatorily, holohedral, jackrolled, landholder, lowlanders, mortadella, overcalled, pollarding, polyhedral, prodigally, radiolabel, reallotted, romeldales, smallsword, thralldoms, toroidally, wallboards.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction 		13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Frequency 		17. Names: Company Usage
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern 		21. Abbreviations
22. Acronyms
23. Derivations
24. Rhymes 		25. Anagrams
26. Bibliography


  

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