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Dollar

Dollar Meaning & Definition
Dollar Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dollar?

[n] a symbol of commercialism or greed; "he worships the almighty dollar"; "the dollar sign means little to him"
[n] a United States coin worth one dollar; "the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States"
[n] (United States) a piece of paper money worth one dollar
[n] the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dollar: buck | clam | dollar bill | dollar mark | dollar sign | one dollar bill

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dollar: afghani | anna | baht | bawbee | bill | bone | buck | C | cartwheel | cent | centavo | centime | century | C-note | conto | copper | crown | Deutschmark | dime | dollar bill | dong | farthing | fifty cents | fin | fish | five cents | five hundred dollars | five-dollar bill | five-hundred-dollar bill | fiver | five-spot | florin | four bits | fourpence | fourpenny | franc | frogskin | G | G-note | grand | groat | guilder | guinea | gulden | half a C | half crown | half dollar | half G | half grand | halfpenny | hundred-dollar bill | iron man | kip | kopeck | krona | krone | lira | mag | Mark | meg | mill | milreis | mite | monkey | new pence | nickel | np | p | pence | penny | peseta | pie | piece of eight | pistareen | pony | pound | quarter | quid | rand | red cent | Reichsmark | rial | rock | ruble | rupee | sawbuck | shekel | shilling | silver dollar | sixpence | skin | smacker | sol | sou | stiver | ten cents | tenner | ten-spot | thousand dollars | thousand-dollar bill | threepence | threepenny bit | thrippence | tuppence | twenty-dollar bill | twenty-five cents | two bits | two-dollar bill | twopence | two-spot | won | yard | yen

See Also | Australian dollar | Bahamian dollar | bank bill | bank note | banker's bill | banknote | Barbados dollar | Belize dollar | Bermuda dollar | bill | Brunei dollar | Canadian dollar | cartwheel | Cayman Islands dollar | cent | coin | Dominican dollar | Federal Reserve note | Fiji dollar | government note | greenback | Grenada dollar | Guyana dollar | Hong Kong dollar | Jamaican dollar | Kiribati dollar | Liberian dollar | monetary unit | New Zealand dollar | note | silver dollar | Singapore dollar | Susan B Anthony dollar | symbol | Taiwan dollar | Trinidad and Tobago dollar | Tuvalu dollar | United States dollar | Zimbabwean dollar

Dollar In Webster's Dictionary

\Dol"lar\, n. [D. daalder, LG. dahler, G. thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, i. e., a piece of money first coined, about the year 1518, in the valley (G. thal) of St. Joachim, in Bohemia. See {Dale}.] 1. (a) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains. (b) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined. Note: Previous to 1837 the silver dollar had a larger amount of alloy, but only the same amount of silver as now, the total weight being 416 grains. The gold dollar as a distinct coin was first made in 1849. The eagles, half eagles, and quarter eagles coined before 1834 contained 24.75 grains of gold and 2.25 grains of alloy for each dollar. 2. A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries. 3. The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values. {Chop dollar}. See under 9th {Chop}. {Dollar fish} (Zo["o]l.), a fish of the United States coast ({Stromateus triacanthus}), having a flat, roundish form and a bright silvery luster; -- called also {butterfish}, and {Lafayette}. See {Butterfish}. {Trade dollar}, a silver coin formerly made at the United States mint, intended for export, and not legal tender at home. It contained 378 grains of silver and 42 grains of alloy.

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