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dollar (iou)



dollar noun. M16.
[Early Flemish, Low German daler (Dutch daalder) from German Taler (formerly also thaler), abbreviation of Joachimst(h)aler coin from the silver mine of Joachimst(h)al, i.e. Joachim's valley, now Jachymov in the Czech Republic. Cf. THALER.]
Hist. A German thaler; any of various northern European coins bearing an equivalent name. M16.
Hist. A Spanish or Spanish-American peso or piece of eight (also largely used in the British N. American colonies at the time of the War of Independence). L16.
The basic monetary unit of the United States, equal to 100 cents; a basic monetary unit in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and numerous other countries; a note or coin of the value of one dollar. L18.
A five-shilling piece, a crown. slang. obsolete exc. Hist. E19.
Phrases: a million dollars: see MILLION adjective. be dollars to doughnuts, be dollars to buttons, etc., US be a certainty (that). bottom dollar: see BOTTOM adjective. like a million dollars: see MILLION adjective. top dollar: see TOP adjective.
Comb.: dollar area those countries which have a currency linked to the US dollar; dollarbird the broad-billed roller, Eurystomus orientalis, a brown and blue-green bird of parts of Asia and Australia that has a round white patch on each wing; dollar day N. Amer.: when a shop makes special price reductions, usu. including some to a dollar; dollar diplomacy: which seeks to advance a country's financial and commercial interests abroad and hence its international influence; dollar gap the excess of a country's import trade with the dollar area over the corresponding export trade; dollar-mark, dollar-sign the symbol $, placed before a number to denote that many dollars; dollar spot a discoloured area caused by disease, esp. on a lawn; a fungal disease that affects lawns in this way.
Dollardom noun (now rare) (the inhabitants of) a place where the people's main aim is seen as amassing dollars; rich Americans collectively: M19.
dollari'zation noun the action or process of aligning a currency with the US dollar L20.