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- any of numerous coins patterned after the taler (e.g., a Spanish peso)
- any of various basic monetary units (as in the U.S. and Canada) -- a coin, note, or token representing one dollar
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Last updated: June 14, 2004.
[Low German daler, taler, from German Taler, short for Joachimstaler, afterJoachimstal (Jáchymov), a town of northwest Czech Republic where similar coins were first minted.]
Monetary unit of the United States and 14 other countries. Since 1971, when the U.S. Officially abandoned the gold exchange standard and convertibility of the dollar into gold, the value of the U.S. Dollar has been allowed to float freely against other currencies in foreign exchange markets.
Idioms beginning with dollar:
dollars to doughnuts, it's
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).
sub-atomic physics USA The degree of departure from critical condition of a nuclear reactor, the value 1 being the threshold of reactivity for a self-sustaining chain reaction. See also inhour; nile.
Is the currency for: Australia , Bahamas , Barbados , Belize , Brunei , Burmuda , Canada , Cayman Islands , East Caribbean , Fiji , Guyana , Hong Kong , Jamaica , Liberia , Nambia , New Zealand , Singapore , Solomon Islands , Taiwan , Trinidad , United States , Zimbabwe
In 2004, the euro was stronger than the dollar.
Tutor's tip: She wasn't "duller" (slower to understand; more boring) than her friend, but she did feel the "dolor" (a state of extreme sorrow or pain) of not having even one "dollar" (paper currency equal to 100 cents) in her pocket.
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The dollar (often represented by the dollar sign: "$") is the name of the official currency in several countries, dependencies and other regions.
The name Thaler (from German thal, or nowadays usually Tal, "valley", cognate with "dale" in English) came from the German coin Guldengroschen ("great guilder", being of silver but equal in value to a gold guilder), minted from the silver from a rich mine at Joachimsthal - Jáchymov (St. Joachim's Valley) in Bohemia (then part of the Holy Roman Empire, now part of the Czech Republic). The basis of "thaler" comes from Joachimsthaler.[1] The name is historically related to the tolar in Slovenia (Slovenian tolar) and Bohemia, the daalder in the Netherlands and daler in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.
The name "Spanish dollar" was used for a Spanish coin, the "real de a ocho" and later peso, worth eight reals (hence the nickname "pieces of eight"), which was widely circulated during the 18th century in the Spanish colonies in the New World and in Spanish territories in Asia, namely in the Philippines.The use of the Spanish dollar and the Maria Theresa thaler as legal tender for the early United States are the reasons for the name of the nation's currency.[citation needed] However, the word dollar was in use in the English language as slang or mis-pronunciation for the thaler for about 200 years before the American Revolution, with many quotes in the plays of Shakespeare referring to dollars as money. Spanish dollars were in circulation in the Thirteen Colonies that became the United States, and were legal tender in Virginia.
The Dutch lion dollar circulated throughout the Middle East and was imitated in several German and Italian cities. It was also popular in the Dutch East Indies as well as in the Dutch New Netherlands Colony (New York). The lion dollar also circulated throughout the English colonies during the 17th and early 18th centuries. Examples circulating in the colonies were usually fairly well worn so that the design was not fully distinguishable, thus they were sometimes referred to as "dog dollars."[1]
Coins known as dollars were also in use in Scotland during the 17th century, and there is a claim that the use of the English word, and perhaps even the use of the coin, began at the University of St Andrews. This explains the sum of 'Ten thousand dollars' mentioned in Macbeth (Act I, Scene II), although the real Macbeth upon whom the play was based lived in the 11th century, making the reference anachronistic; however this is not rare in Shakespeare's work.
In the early 19th century, a British five-shilling piece, or crown, was sometimes called a dollar, probably because its appearance was similar to the Spanish dollar. This expression appeared again in the 1940s, when U.S. troops came to the UK during World War II. At the time a U.S. dollar was worth about 5s., so some of the U.S. soldiers started calling it a dollar. Consequently, they called the half crown "half a dollar", and the expression caught on among some locals and could be heard into the 1960s.
In the early days of the United States, the dollar was a defined unit of trade equal to 412.5 grains (26.73 g) of 90% silver. Today the closest definition to a dollar comes from the United States code Title 31, Section 5116, paragraph b, subsection 2, "The Secretary [of the Treasury] shall sell silver under conditions the Secretary considers appropriate for at least $1.292929292 a fine troy ounce." However Federal Reserve banks are only prejudiced to deliver tax credits instead of money. The silver content of U.S. coinage was mostly removed in 1965 and the dollar essentially became a baseless free-floating fiat currency; though the U.S. Mint continues to make silver $1 bullion coins at this weight. It is believed that the original green color and other specific designs of a paper dollar were introduced by 2 Armenian brothers from Massachusetts who were Near-Eastern immigrants. [citation needed]
Some of these are called dollars in English, but by a different name in the native language of the country. See the navigational box below for a complete list.
The name has also been applied to the international dollar, a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power that the U.S. dollar has in the United States at a given point in time.
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dollar, dollarbiljet
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Deutsch (German)
n. - Dollar, US-Dollar
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Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (οικον.) δολάριο
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Português (Portuguese)
n. - dólar (m)
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中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
元, 美元
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中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 元, 美元
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العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) الدولار, وحدة النقد في أمريكا وكندا واستراليا
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