Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character $, signifying ‘dollar’ or ‘dollars.’ Thus, $5 means five dollars; $3.75 means three dollars and seventy-five cents.
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Examples
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But oh! most miserable the woman of stolid, unimaginative nature, whose luxurious wardrobe suggests nothing but the dollar-mark.
Etiquette Agnes H. Morton
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_Whichever way you turn, the dollar-mark will swing info your vision_.
Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887
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Sometimes the dollar-mark grew blurred in her mind's eye, and shaped itself into letters that spelled such words as "truth" and "honor" and now and then just
The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
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Warrenton Pike, much as the S of a prostrate dollar-mark twines above and below its horizontal line, the vicinity of which is destined to be hotly-contested ground ere night-fall.
The Great Conspiracy, Complete John Alexander Logan 1856
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Warrenton Pike, much as the S of a prostrate dollar-mark twines above and below its horizontal line, the vicinity of which is destined to be hotly-contested ground ere night-fall.
The Great Conspiracy, Volume 3 John Alexander Logan 1856
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'The Dark Knight' just days away from the billion dollar-mark
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