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