dollar sign
noun
: a mark $ placed before a number to indicate that it stands for dollars
called also dollar mark
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This is what happens when detainees are seen as dollar signs.
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
What happens next depends on whether the industry is finally ready to match Black women’s investment with real opportunities (i.e. dollar signs).
—Essence, 7 July 2025
According to multiple people briefed on FIFA’s planning for the tournament, who wished to remain anonymous to protect relationships, Infantino was determined to make a splash and, in FIFA-land, nothing makes a splash quite like dollar signs.
—Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 May 2025
For Nantz, golf immortality doesn’t have a dollar sign attached to it.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
What happens next depends on whether the industry is finally ready to match Black women’s investment with real opportunities (i.e. dollar signs).
—Essence, 7 July 2025
According to multiple people briefed on FIFA’s planning for the tournament, who wished to remain anonymous to protect relationships, Infantino was determined to make a splash and, in FIFA-land, nothing makes a splash quite like dollar signs.
—Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 May 2025
For Nantz, golf immortality doesn’t have a dollar sign attached to it.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dollar sign
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“Dollar sign.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dollar%20sign. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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