| 1. | a paper money, silver or cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of the United States, equal to 100 cents. Symbol: $ |
| 2. | a silver or nickel coin and monetary unit of Canada, equal to 100 cents. Symbol: $ |
| 3. | any of the monetary units of various other nations, as Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Fiji, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Liberia, New Zealand, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zimbabwe, equal to 100 cents. |
| 4. | Also called ringgit. a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Brunei, equal to 100 sen. |
| 5. | ringgit (def. 1). |
| 6. | a thaler. |
| 7. | a peso. |
| 8. | Levant dollar. |
| 9. | yuan (def. 1). |
| 10. | British Slang. (formerly)
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dol·lar (dŏl'ər) n.
[Low German daler, taler, from German Taler, short for Joachimstaler, after Joachimstal (Jáchymov), a town of northwest Czech Republic where similar coins were first minted.] |
dollar character
"$" Common names: ITU-T: dollar sign. Rare: currency symbol; buck; cash; string; escape (when used as the echo of ASCII ESC); ding; cache; INTERCAL: big money.
Well-known uses of the dollar symbol in computing include as a prefix on the names of string variables in BASIC, shell and related languages like Perl. In shell languages it is also used in positional parameters so "$1" is the first parameter to a shell script, "$2" the second, etc.
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dollar
In addition to the idiom beginning with dollars, also see feel like a million dollars; look like a million dollars; you can bet your ass (bottom dollar).
dollar
originally, a silver coin that circulated in many European countries; in modern times, the name of the standard monetary unit in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. The Spanish peso, or piece of eight, which circulated in the Spanish and English colonies in America, was known as a dollar by the English-speaking peoples. Familiarity with this coin resulted in the official designation of the United States monetary unit as the dollar in 1792. Canada adopted the dollar and monetary decimal system in 1858; Australia in 1966; and New Zealand in 1967.
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