2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, inThe Economist[1], volume407, number8838, page11:
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dollar bill! You know, the thing that’s worth 500 times more than the penny!
2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, inCNN Business[2]:
The value of the peso has plummeted 858% against the USdollar over the past five years as the central bank printed more of the currency to help the country’s spendthrift government avoid defaulting on its debts.[…] There’s another significant snag in Milei’s plan: Argentina doesn’t have enoughdollars to ditch the peso.
2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray,Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society:
Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertisingdollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
(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.
(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 perbushel.)
1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London;Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:
The restricted purchase ofdollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
1956,The Spectator, volume197, page342:
For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others:dollar films anddollar tobacco.
Mandarin:圓 /圆(zh)(yuán)(written, formal),元(zh)(yuán)(written),塊 /块(zh)(kuài)(spoken),塊錢 /块钱(kuài qián)(used as a unit after an amount),刀(zh)(dāo)(neologism, colloquial)
