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# dollar

«dollar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a unit of money used in the United States, Canada…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (dollar, dollars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dollar is a unit of money used in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and some other countries. A dollar is 100 cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/#m1)

2) A dollar is a coin or note worth one dollar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the unit of money: prices, savings, spending, earning; «spent» takes away, «earned» adds; the sign is $; phrases: «a dollar», «N dollars each», «a dollar an hour», «dollar bill», «$5»

### examples

- A book costs 6 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/#x1)
- She had 20 dollars and spent 8. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/#x2)
- He earns 5 dollars an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/#x3)
- How many dollars did they spend in all? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/#x4)
- A dollar is 100 cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/#x5)
- I found a dollar coin in my pocket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/#x6)
- The tickets cost $4 each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/#x7)
- She saved 2 dollars a week for 10 weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/#x8)

### note

«A dollar is 100 cents.» A unit of money, not a thing counted. «spent» takes away, «earned» adds; «each costs N dollars» is a rate (price). Trap: «$» before a number means dollars too: $5 is said «five dollars». Write «$5», not «5$».

### In the corpora

- [That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/7/)
- [A dollar is 100 cents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/93-change/0/)
- [A game costs 36 dollars; saving 4 dollars a week, it takes 36 ÷ 4 = 9 weeks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/94-saving-weeks/1/)
- [1 metre is 100 centimetres, and 1 dollar is 100 cents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/134-two-units-in-one/0/)
- [Money works the same way: 4 dollars 60 cents is 400 + 60 = 460 cents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/134-two-units-in-one/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dollar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dollar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.