dollar sign

noun

: a mark $ placed before a number to indicate that it stands for dollars

called also dollar mark

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The least expensive three-star restaurants have three dollar signs, and there are only five of them. —

Molly Mcardle, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023 This identity crisis makes Will vulnerable to sketchy influences like his estranged father Lou (Marlon Wayans) and his shifty mentor Doc Hightower (Brooklyn McLinn), a basketball coach who shows with lofty hoop dreams and dollar signs in his eyes. —

Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 7 Apr. 2023 Gates appears concerned that A.I. pioneers like Altman might be more concerned about dollar signs than progress of mankind as a whole. —

Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023 Fill in the dollar amount numerically next to the dollar sign. —

Melanie Lockert, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022 Sanders stepped into the batter's box with one out and a runner on third and drew a dollar sign in the dirt. —

Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2019 The chart was labeled incorrectly with a dollar sign. —

WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022 Perelel is much more than a business venture for me, and the value proposition goes further than a dollar sign. —

Rachel King, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2022 For example, finding the dollar sign or an asterisk is pretty straightforward. —

Yoni Heisler, BGR, 18 Apr. 2022 See More

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