English Dictionary

dollar

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɒ.lə/

名詞

広義 イギリス英語 口語 歴史的 限定用法

Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $. / (by extension) Money generally.

日本語の意味

一部の国々（例：カナダ、アメリカ、オーストラリア、ニュージーランド、香港など）において、公式に通貨として指定されたもの。 / 拡大して、一般的な「お金」という意味も含む。

I kept a dollar in my wallet to pay for the taxi.

タクシー代を払うために、財布に1ドル入れておいた。

意味（1）

Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.

Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dollar bill! You know, the thing that’s worth 500 times more than the penny!

意味（2）

(by extension) Money generally.

Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.

意味（3）

(UK, colloquial, historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.

We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo

意味（4）

(attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)

The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco

意味（5）

(nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

dollars （ plural ）