dollar-a-year

adjective

dol·​lar-a-year ˈdä-lər-ə-ˈyir 

: compensated by a token salary usually for government service

a dollar-a-year man

Examples of dollar-a-year in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Medica and HealthPartners have been covering the million-dollar-a-year care, but stopped, saying state law only requires them to provide partial care. — Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, CBS News, 1 June 2026

The cultural shift that turned horror cinema from a disreputable, rarely respected grind-house film genre into a billion-dollar-a-year mainstream business has done wonders for the genre’s overall quality. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 29 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1918, in the meaning defined above

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