1974 September 18,Earl Wilson, “Alive & Well in Show Biz”, inThe Press, Atlantic City final edition (in English), Atlantic City, N.J.,→OCLC,page35, column 2:
PRODUCER DAVID MERRICK recently sued a telecastress and her stations for several million$ for saying that big stars wouldn’t work for him . . .
A substitute for the letter S, used as a symbol ofmoney or perceivedgreed in business practices.
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1971 February 26, “Motor City: March Special” (advertisement), inThe Daily Herald-Tribune, volume58, number168 (in English), Grande Prairie: Bowes Publishers Limited, After Hours, page 2:
BE SAFE - BE SURE ¶ Come in NOW and$AVE
1992,Michael Rumaker,To Kill a Cardinal (in English),[Rocky Mount, N.C.]: Arthur Mann Kaye,→ISBN,page37:
While shrilly blowing whistles and setting off marine fog horns, they began scattering queer—as in “queer-as-a-three-dollar-bill”—money, phony 100s, 50s and 10s created by the activist artists group Gran Fury, down onto the floor of The Exchange, the backs of the bills reading: FUCK YOUR PROFITEERING. PEOPLE ARE DYING WHILE YOU PLAY BUSINESS. AID$ NOW.
2024 May 24, Susan Griffin, “How the super rich party at the Monaco Grand Prix”, inCNN[3] (in English):
Some bottles of champagne at Amber Lounge afterparties can cost €20,000 ($21,600).
2025 June 13, Luciana Lopez and Chris Isidore, “US Steel and Nippon Steel say Trump has approved their partnership”, inCNN Business[4] (in English):
US Steel was once a symbol of American industrial power. It was the most valuable company in the world and, soon after its 1901 creation, became the first to be worth$1 billion.
When used as a currency symbol, $ precedes the number it qualifies in English, despite being pronounced second. For example, "$1" is read asone dollar, notdollar one unlike the usage in languages such as French or German: "1 $", "2,50 $".
When used for the Portugueseescudo, $ is placed between the escudos andcentavos, e.g. 2$50. The official symbol for the escudo is (with two bars), but that form is unified with the single-bar form in Unicode. A single-bar dollar sign is frequently employed in its place even for official purposes.
– cifrão
– Emirati dirham
- Indian paisa
– Omani rial
- Belarusian ruble
– rufiyaa
