noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dime novel
dime store
stop on a dime American English (= stop very quickly – used about cars )
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This truck can stop on a dime!
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
novel
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What ever happened to dime novels ?
store
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The dime stores will close in phases by September 1998.
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In December she found temporary holiday work in a Newark five-and-dime store .
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Woolworth Corp. executives brought the curtain down Thursday on the venerable but money-losing chain of 400 five-and-dime stores .
■ VERB
get
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When parents encounter this obstacle, they finally get off the dime and have their kids vaccinated.
pay
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And he never paid a dime of income tax on it.
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He gets young kiddies to scour the streets looking for discarded crack vials that he pays them a dime apiece for.
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City Council should not pay him a dime beyond his contract.
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Dunne jumped off before he had to pay his half dime .
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Nobody pays a dime in Social Security taxes on capital gains.
spend
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It cost me two years of impoverishment, spending every dime on legal fees.
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He was now magic, huge, tremendously well-known and all of it without spending a dime of his campaign cash.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dime taken from any other kid was a good deal.
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Even Mafia guys drop dimes on each other nowadays.
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It cost me two years of impoverishment, spending every dime on legal fees.
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Metaphors of Britain's decline have been a dime a dozen in the post-war years.
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Quarters, nickels, dimes, the whole works.
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What ever happened to dime novels?