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greenback
/ ˈɡriːnˌbæk /
noun
- informal.an inconvertible legal-tender US currency note originally issued during the Civil War in 1862
- slang.a dollar bill
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Word History and Origins
Origin of greenback1
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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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