dollars
UK/ˈdɒl.əz//ˈdɑ.lɚz/
dollars is the plural of dollar.
Meaning of dollar
Noun
dollar (plural dollars)
- 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 $.
- But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11
- Money generally.
- 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.2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
- A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.
- A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
- Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
- The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952
- A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
Phrases with dollars
- dollars up
- US dollars
- dollars out
- rix dollars
- sea dollars
- top dollars
- chop dollars
- junk dollars
- Kiwi dollars
- sand dollars
- soft dollars
- U.S. dollars
46 more phrasesFewer phrases
- holey dollars
- peace dollars
- sword dollars
- trade dollars
- Aussie dollars
- Belize dollars
- bottom dollars
- Morgan dollars
- pillar dollars
- silver dollars
- Carolus dollars
- memento dollars
- Spanish dollars
- Straits dollars
- 20 whole dollars
- American dollars
- Canadian dollars
- speak in dollars
- spoke in dollars
- dollars to donuts
- Hong Kong dollars
- Sacagawea dollars
- Singapore dollars
- so-called dollars
- speaks in dollars
- spoken in dollars
- Australian dollars
- New Taiwan dollars
- Zimbabwean dollars
- New Zealand dollars
- speaking in dollars
- keyhole sand dollars
- twenty whole dollars
- bet dollars to donuts
- dollars of the daddies
- like a million dollars
- more dollars than sense
- 20 dollars is 20 dollars
- bet dollars to doughnuts
- chase pennies with dollars
- chased pennies with dollars
- chases pennies with dollars
- chasing pennies with dollars
- do you accept American dollars
- twenty dollars is twenty dollars
- do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars
Questions about dollars
- What is dollars the plural of?
- Dollars is the plural of dollar.
- How do you pronounce dollars?
- Dollars is pronounced /ˈdɒl.əz/ (UK).
Words near dollars in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dollars (page history and authors); dollar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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