noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
billions of pounds/dollars etc
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Airlines have lost billions of dollars.
half dollar
millions of pounds/dollars etc
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Millions of pounds were lost in Western aid.
pay in dollars/euros etc
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American exporters want to be paid in dollars.
silver dollar
top dollar
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Computer customers are willing to pay top dollar for fast repair.
trillions of pounds/dollars etc
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the trillions of dollars in the bond markets
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
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The Federal Reserve cut dollar interest rates last week but then the Fed is professionally interested in money.
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These and other economic development proposals have emphasized targeting and leveraging to get maximum use of the federal dollars .
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Nor are more federal dollars likely.
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Over the past fiscal year, the school received $ 250 million in federal dollars for 1, 600 projects.
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More federal dollars is one possible result.
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Control of federal dollars is an old issue.
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Counties are also bracing for the brunt of federal welfare reform, expected to mark a significant loss of federal aid dollars .
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A presidential declaration would trigger federal aid dollars for flood victims.
strong
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Against the strong dollar , the pound fell to a 31-month low earlier of $ 1. 5201.
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A strong dollar boosts exporters' profits by allowing them to lower prices abroad, which makes them more competitive.
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Against the strong dollar , the pound was weaker at $ 1. 5292 compared with $ 1. 5383.
weak
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In London, light trading on currency markets saw the pound gain 10 points against a weak dollar to close at 1.4843.
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The yen is weak and the dollar strong.
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Sydney: The market shook off its bearish mood, boosted by a weaker local dollar .
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And, Mr Trittin notes, some of the buyers were large foreign financial firms, taking advantage of the weak dollar .
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But with a weak dollar , it will quickly burn out in faster core inflation.
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Profits at auto makers and other exporters could be tarnished by a weaker dollar against the yen.
■ NOUN
bill
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Gomez slid three one-thousand dollar bills from the wallet.
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Co., which makes the stock that dollar bills are printed on.
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He rolls up a dollar bill , and stares at it as if deliberately recalling something.
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Open, it yielded a few dollar bills .
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I got an autographed dollar bill and Viral Hepatitis I started bullying her.
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Once, he even found a twenty dollar bill .
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He hands over one crisp dollar bill and 40,000 sucres in coins and stained notes.
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No, there was no wallet with dollar bills .
tax
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Out-of-staters pay millions of tax dollars to local governments.
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These are our tax dollars , and we should demand accountability.
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When banking jobs disappear, tax dollars go with them.
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We want better education, better roads, and better health care, for the same tax dollar .
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Both county and federal governments were taking tax dollars out of my pocket and using them to discriminate against other women.
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Because two-thirds of those with an opinion believed the state wasted more than 20 percent of every tax dollar it collected.
worth
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Dixie had a peculiar talent for making many thousands of dollars worth of clothes look like she had bought them at Woolworths.
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They require hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new equipment and fiber optic backbone to make them two-way streets.
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Half a million dollars worth of furniture and art.
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Even a few dollars worth of prevention can save you thousands and keep you in business.
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By his own estimate, he has brokered a billion dollars worth of deals.
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He was responsible for more than 100 people and several hundred million dollars worth of mat6riel resources.
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Law enforcement officials in California said the men have put more than a million dollars worth of renovations into it.
■ VERB
buy
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Everybody who could rushed to buy dollars .
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When investors sell marks for yen, they generally sell marks for dollars first and then sell the dollars to buy yen.
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But on the streets of Yangon, it takes 125 kyats to buy a dollar .
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It surged after a round of automatic orders to buy dollars were executed at about 1. 4585 marks, traders said.
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But on the way to the bank to buy dollars she lost her wallet containing £400.
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Apparently they would rather spend it on buying gold and dollars which is all that keeps them going.
cost
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The kind that cost about a hundred dollars on the black market.
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It cost a half million dollars to film.
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Any delay to the hydroelectric project will cost millions of dollars a month.
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Chairs, small tables and cabinets may cost several hundred dollars .
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Yet fixing them will cost billions of dollars that local politicians can not raise from taxes.
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The procedure cost five hundred dollars , which Amelia left unpaid.
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The farmer said it would cost three dollars , but the girl had only thirty cents.
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He and Peggy Britt started with a product sample kit that cost just twenty-five dollars .
earn
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He had a patent and had earned millions of dollars in royalties.
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I earned barely ten thousand dollars a year, and James was still in college.
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For her latest film, Sliver, she has earned almost 3m dollars .
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Every day I earned approximately a dollar and a half.
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Till then, Antonescu earns a modest dollar from his bootleg memory bullets.
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It also lifts the yen-value of the money the exporters earn in dollars .
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Some governments of countries earning dollar surpluses supply Eurodollar deposits as a matter of policy.
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I was earning 4900 dollars a year teaching.
pay
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The balance of trade with the Soviet Union is to be paid in dollars , though loans are promised to cover that.
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In this case, Betty Edward says she was never paid thousands of dollars promised her by the attorneys.
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With only half the contents missing, it has paid me ten dollars more.
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Salomon Brothers paid the ten-thousand-dollar bill racked up by the wife of its mailroom clerk with three months' tenure.
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One pays top dollar and one gets really good people.
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But construction companies can not afford to pay top dollar , never mind the double rate required by Davis-Bacon, to novices.
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And inside the Cathedral, some one from the States paying two thousand dollars for a seat.
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Bay Area parents typically pay a few thousand dollars in annual tuition to send their children to preschool.
rise
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The 25 initial contracts, due for delivery in 1995, will rise and fall in dollar increments.
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State expenditure on agriculture was set to rise to dollars 294,000,000, from dollars 230,000,000 the previous year.
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Auto shares and some electronics exporters rose with the dollar .
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Pound up: The pound rose to 1.5230 dollars and 2.4829 marks from 1.5182 dollars and 2.4655 marks at the previous close.
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That concern may temper any gains in exporters, rising with the dollar .
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Worldwide, stock prices rose in dollar terms.
sell
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Workers in the oil industry want to sell oil for dollars .
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When investors sell marks for yen, they generally sell marks for dollars first and then use the proceeds to buy yen.
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You don't sell million dollar paintings here.
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He sold fifty million dollars at 5. 5 percent.
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Rupiah are sold to buy dollars and other currencies to purchase those imports.
spend
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That night I spent the ten dollars Papa had given me.
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But those same tourists are spending more total dollars in the city than they did four years ago.
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All you read about Washington is how they are going to spend those billions of dollars .
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He said Californians are spending millions of dollars to storm-proof their homes.
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I spent every last dollar as though it were my first.
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R guys and spend zillions of dollars out of the box trying to get a hit.
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Marketing firms spend millions of dollars in the effort to find out what customers exist for planned or present services and products.
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The group has spent thousands of dollars trying to kill the McCain-Feingold bill.
trade
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Here again, they must trade their yen for dollars .
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Most of our exports are traded in dollars .
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At any given moment on the trading floor billions of dollars were being risked by bond traders.
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Bond prices were little changed in modest trading and the dollar was mixed in a muted session.
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In Tokyo trading , the dollar bought 105. 57 yen, up 0. 25.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a run on the dollar/pound etc
be down to your last pound/dollar/litre etc
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
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I felt like a million dollars.
multimillion-pound/multimillion-dollar etc
you (can) bet your life/your bottom dollar
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A newer model could save you hundreds of dollars a year.
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And, Mr Trittin notes, some of the buyers were large foreign financial firms, taking advantage of the weak dollar .
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Fifteen dollars was clearly a low estimate.
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He has millions and millions of dollars.
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I got ten from one of my grandmas and then I got a fifty dollar bill from my other grandma.
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Many millions of dollars have flooded into new biotechnology companies in pursuit of interferon and other potential moneyspinners.
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That surprised everybody, since the administration has lately tried to talk the dollar down.
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Two dollars will take you half way across the city.Two seconds by the side of the road will get you a cab.