transcription, транскрипция: [ dɒlə(r) ]
( dollars)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
The dollar is the unit of money used in the USA, Canada, Australia, and some other countries. It is represented by the symbol $. A dollar is divided into one hundred smaller units called cents.
She gets paid seven dollars an hour...
The government is spending billions of dollars on new urban rail projects.
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The dollar is also used to refer to the American currency system.
In early trading in Tokyo, the dollar fell sharply against the yen.
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2.
If you pay top dollar for something, you pay a lot of money for it. ( INFORMAL )
Japanese investors once paid top dollar for the most glamorous hotels in the United States.
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