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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

Last updated: June 14, 2004.

 
 
Dictionary: dol·lar  (dŏl'ər) pronunciation
n.
  1. A basic unit of currency in Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brunei, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kiribai, Liberia, Nauru, New Zealand, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United States, and Zimbabwe.
  2. A coin or note worth one dollar.

[Low German daler, taler, from German Taler, short for Joachimstaler, afterJoachimstal (Jáchymov), a town of northwest Czech Republic where similar coins were first minted.]


 
Banking Dictionary: Dollar

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: dollar

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).

 
Antonyms: dollar

n

Definition: paper money
Antonyms: change, coin

 
Measures and Units: 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.

 
Word Tutor: dollar
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IN BRIEF: United States currency worth 100 cents.

pronunciation 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.

 
Wikipedia: dollar
This article is about the type of currency. For other uses, see Dollar (disambiguation).


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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.

History

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]

Related names in modern currencies

  • The tala is based on the Samoan pronunciation of the word "dollar". Likewise, the name of the smaller unit, seneiti, equates to "cent".
  • The Slovenian tolar had the same origin as dollar, i.e. thaler.

National currencies called "dollar"

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.

See also

References

  1. ^ Rhodes, Richard (1986). The making of the atomic bomb. New York: Simon and Schuster, 118. 
Currencies named dollar or similar
Circulating Australian dollar · Bahamian dollar · Barbadian dollar · Belize dollar · Bermudian dollar · Brunei dollar · Canadian dollar · Cayman Islands dollar · Cook Islands dollar · East Caribbean dollar · Fijian dollar · Guyanese dollar · Hong Kong dollar · Jamaican dollar · Kiribati dollar · Liberian dollar · Namibian dollar · New Zealand dollar · Samoan tala · Singapore dollar (dolar, வெள்ளி) · Solomon Islands dollar · Surinamese dollar · New Taiwan dollar · Trinidad and Tobago dollar · United States dollar · Zimbabwean dollar
Circulating, formerly a.k.a. dollar Malaysian dollar
Obsolete Antigua dollar · British North Borneo dollar · British West Indies dollar · Ceylonese rixdollar · Confederate States of America dollar · Continental dollar · Danish rigsdaler · Danish West Indian daler (dollar) · Danish West Indian rigsdaler · Dominican dollar · Dutch rijksdaalder · Greenlandic rigsdaler · Grenadan dollar · Hawaiian dollar (dala) · Kiautschou dollar · Malaya and British Borneo dollar · Malayan dollar · Mauritian dollar · Mongolian dollar · Nevisian dollar · New Brunswick dollar · Newfoundland dollar · Norwegian rigsdaler · Norwegian speciedaler · Nova Scotian dollar · Penang dollar · Puerto Rican dollar · Rhodesian dollar · Saint Kitts dollar · Saint Lucia dollar · Saint Vincent dollar · Sarawak dollar · Sierra Leonean dollar · Slovenian tolar · Spanish dollar · Straits dollar · Sumatran dollar · Swedish riksdaler · Old Taiwan dollar · Texan dollar · Trinidadian dollar · Tobagan dollar · Tuvaluan dollar
Obsolete, a.k.a. dollar Chinese yuan · Ethiopian birr
Conceptual Eurodollar · International dollar · Petrodollar · Geary-Khamis dollar
Virtual Linden dollar
Fictional Dollarpound
Private Antarctican dollar · Calgary dollar · Disney dollar · Liberty dollar · Toronto dollar · Millennium Dollar
See also Dollar sign · Holey dollar · Thaler · $1


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Translations: Translations for: Dollar

Dansk (Danish)
n. - dollar

idioms:

  • dollar area    dollarområdet
  • dollar diplomacy    dollardiplomati
  • dollar gap    handelsunderskud i forhold til dollarområdet
  • dollar mark    dollartegn
  • dollar sign    dollartegn

Nederlands (Dutch)
dollar, dollarbiljet

Français (French)
n. - dollar

idioms:

  • dollar area    zone dollar
  • dollar diplomacy    diplomatie qui s'appuie sur le pouvoir financier
  • dollar gap    fossé du dollar
  • dollar mark    symbole du dollar
  • dollar sign    symbole du dollar

Deutsch (German)
n. - Dollar, US-Dollar

idioms:

  • dollar area    Gebiet mit Dollar-gebundener Währung
  • dollar diplomacy    Dollardiplomatie
  • dollar gap    Dollarlücke
  • dollar mark    Dollarzeichen
  • dollar sign    Dollarzeichen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (οικον.) δολάριο

idioms:

  • dollar area    (οικον.) περιοχή δολαρίου
  • dollar diplomacy    (καθομ.) (οικον.) οικονομικός ιμπεριαλισμός των ΗΠΑ
  • dollar gap    (οικον.) άνοιγμα δολαρίων, έλλειμμα (σε δολάρια) εμπορικού ισοζυγίου
  • dollar mark    το σύμβολο του δολαρίου
  • dollar sign    το σύμβολο του δολαρίου

Italiano (Italian)
dollaro

idioms:

  • dollar area    zona del dollaro
  • dollar diplomacy    diplomazia del dollaro
  • dollar gap    eccedenza/scarsità di dollari
  • dollar mark/sign    simbolo del dollaro
  • feel/look like a million dollars    stare benissimo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - dólar (m)

idioms:

  • dollar area    território (m) do dólar
  • dollar diplomacy    prática (f) do dólar
  • dollar gap    escassez (f) de dólares
  • dollar mark/sign    cifrão (m)
  • feel like a million dollars    muito atraente

Русский (Russian)
доллар

idioms:

  • dollar area    долларовая зона
  • dollar diplomacy    экономическое давление
  • dollar gap    нехватка Амер. долларов
  • dollar mark/sign    символ доллара
  • feel like a million dollars    чувствовать себя превосходно

Español (Spanish)
n. - dólar

idioms:

  • dollar area    zona del dólar
  • dollar diplomacy    diplomacia del dólar
  • dollar gap    déficit en dólares, escasez de dólares
  • dollar mark    signo del dólar
  • dollar sign    signo del dólar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - dollar

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
元, 美元

idioms:

  • dollar area    美元区
  • dollar diplomacy    金钱外交
  • dollar gap    美元短缺
  • dollar mark    美元的记号, 美元符号
  • dollar sign    美元符号, 美元的记号

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 元, 美元

idioms:

  • dollar area    美元區
  • dollar diplomacy    金錢外交
  • dollar gap    美元短缺
  • dollar mark    美元的記號, 美元符號
  • dollar sign    美元符號, 美元的記號

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 달러, 금전, 재산

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ドル, 1ドル紙幣

idioms:

  • dollar area    ドル地域
  • dollar diplomacy    ドル外交
  • dollar gap    ドル不足
  • dollar mark/sign    ドル記号

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الدولار, وحدة النقد في أمريكا وكندا واستراليا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮דולר‬

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