dollar (noun)

  • 11dollar — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Dutch or Low German daler, from German Taler, short for Joachimstaler, from Sankt Joachimsthal, Bohemia, where talers were first made Date: 1553 1. taler 2. any of numerous coins patterned after the taler… …

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  • 12dollar sign — dollar ,sign noun count the symbol $, used to show that an amount is in dollars see dollar signs AMERICAN INFORMAL to think only about how much money something or someone is worth …

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  • 13dollar averaging — noun : a practice of investing a uniform sum in common stocks periodically regardless of the level of prices * * * a system of buying securities at regular intervals, using the same amount of cash for each purchase, over a considerable period of… …

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  • 14dollar day — noun : a day on which the merchants of a locality make special offerings of goods and services for one dollar; broadly : a day on which bargain prices in many lines are offered * * * a sale day on which retail merchandise is reduced to a dollar… …

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  • 15dollar spot — noun : a disease of golf green and lawn grasses caused by a fungus (Sclerotinia homeocarpa) and characterized by areas in the turf about two inches in diameter that are first brownish but become bleached straw colored and finally coalesce to form …

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  • 16dollar cost averaging — noun Date: circa 1957 investment in a security at regular intervals of a uniform sum regardless of the price level in order to obtain an overall reduction in cost per unit called also dollar averaging …

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  • 17dollar sign — noun Date: 1881 a mark $ placed before a number to indicate that it stands for dollars called also dollar mark …

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  • 18dollar averaging — noun see dollar cost averaging …

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  • 19dollar mark — noun see dollar sign …

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  • 20dollar store — noun A retail store selling inexpensive items, especially one in which all items have a price of one dollar …

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