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Dollar

noun

The basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents.

A piece of paper money worth one dollar. Synonyms: buck, clam, dollar bill, one dollar bill.

A United States coin worth one dollar.

A symbol of commercialism or greed. Synonyms: dollar mark, dollar sign. "The dollar sign means little to him"

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"Dollar" Quotes from Famous Books

... presidents, directors, and trustees—have been so busy acting their several parts in the past, and are in the present so busy trying to unact them, men are so occupied from their childhood with the mighty dollar, the race for wealth is so strenuous and all-entrancing, that imagination is dying out; and imagination is necessary to make a poet or an actor; the art of acting is the crystallisation of all ...

— [19th Century Actor] Autobiographies • George Iles

... have been here I have noticed a wagon going through on the main road every evening about this time. It belongs to Rousmann, the delicatessen man of Rockville. I wish you'd stop him and see what you can buy for us." And as he finished Dave took a two-dollar bill from his pocket and ...

— Dave Porter and His Rivals - or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer

... readily, and a man who has a company of thirty or forty may well be satisfied if six or eight pairs of them are mated. The truth of this statement is proved by the fact that on the local market a single Goose is worth about one dollar, while a pair of mated Geese will readily bring ...

— The Bird Study Book • Thomas Gilbert Pearson

... Fontainebleau, thirty- five miles southeast of Paris. This was about the year Eighteen Hundred Thirty. There was no market then for Corot's wares, and the artist would have doubted the sanity of any one who might have wanted to buy. His income was one dollar a day—and this was enough. If he wanted to go anywhere, he walked; and so he walked into Barbizon one day, his pack on his back, and found there a little inn, so quaint and simple that he stayed ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard

... involved. The writer recalls visiting a kindergarten class in one of the schools in Salt Lake County. The ward authorities had not been asked for a dollar to fit up the room, and yet it had one of the "homiest" atmospheres imaginable. The teacher of the class, in addition to having an interest in the class, had an artistic temperament. She had collected through a number ...

— Principles of Teaching • Adam S. Bennion

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