dollar

CEFRA1

/ˈdɒl.ə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A unit of money used in several countries.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.

Examples

  • I received a five hundred dollar advance on my pay.

  • The bank will cash your fifty dollar check.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Money generally.

  2. 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 $.

  3. A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

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In context

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

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

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Origin

noun

Middle Low German dālerbor. Dutch dalerbor. English dollar 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 /thaler and tolar.