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dollar

Mane (Îngilîzî)

  1. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
  2. (broadly) Money generally.
  3. (Malaysia, broadly, colloquial) A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.
  4. (UK, colloquial, historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
  5. (attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
  6. A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

Têgeh

dolar

Hevwate

Werger

دولار الولايات المتحدة

δολάριο

δολλάριο

dollar des États-Unis

dollaro USA

Pircarînî

B2
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/ˈdɒl.ə/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

In summary

Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), earlier Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the town where the original dollars were minted. The name means “(Saint) Joachim's valley”, from Joachim + Tal. Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Doublet of taler.

Related words
dollars

plural of dollar

currency

  1. (countable, uncountable) Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Paper money.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The state of being current; general acceptance, recognition or use.
  4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
  5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Fluency; readiness of utterance.

currencies

plural of currency

commodity

  1. (countable, uncountable) Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Something useful or valuable.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
  4. (countable, uncountable) Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin and (usually) fungibility, as distinguished from branded products not wholly fungible.
  5. (Marxism, countable, uncountable) Anything which has both a use value and an exchange value.
  6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Convenience; usefulness, suitability.
  7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage.

monetary

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of money.

investment

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of investing, or state of being invested.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A vestment.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
  5. (countable, uncountable) A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.

commodities

plural of commodity

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