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greenback

[ green-bak ]

noun

  1. a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.


greenback

/ ˈɡriːnˌbæk /

noun

  1. informal.
    an inconvertible legal-tender US currency note originally issued during the Civil War in 1862
  2. slang.
    a dollar bill


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Word History and Origins

Origin of greenback1

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65; green + back 1

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Example Sentences

(The Brazilian real is down a world-beating 21 percent against the greenback since May).

The rest came in a currency then thought far more valuable than the greenback: Facebook stock.

Already money markets have begun to adjust the Australian dollar, which in recent months has enjoyed parity with the greenback.

The federal salvo was the first multiagency money-laundering task force ever assembled, the U.S. Customs–IRS Operation Greenback.

You fed one greenback to a cab-horse down at the Caf Boulevard, said Tootles, trying to be helpful.

"Well, I declare," muttered the Deacon, as he fished a greenback out of a leather pocketbook fastened with a long strap.

The doctor purchased and paid for the dogs, handing the boy a crisp five dollar greenback bill.

It was on this intense labor discontent that the greenback agitation fed and grew.

The aggregate greenback vote cast in the election exceeded a million, and fourteen Representatives were sent to Congress.

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