dollars
- 1Plural of dollar.
The repairs cost several hundred dollars more than the estimate.
Investors poured billions of dollars into the new venture.
Note
A regular plural, formed with -s, that follows any number other than one: three dollars, a few dollars, millions of dollars. Before a noun the singular returns, even when the amount is plural: a ten-dollar bill, a dollar sign. The plural also carries the looser meaning of money in general, as in chasing dollars. In reactor physics, reactivity is measured in dollars as well.
dollars is a form of dollar
dollar, noun: The official currency unit of several countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Hong Kong, written with the symbol $. Full entry
- Forms
- dollardollars plural
- Spelling
- dollar → dollars: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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