Collocations for "dollar"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "dollar" in context.
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dollar
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [deal, trade, pay, bill, invoice] in dollars
- [seats, prices, tickets] start at [fifty] dollars
- will cost you [fifty] dollars
- the [shoes, seats] cost me [200] dollars
- the repair set them back [200] dollars
- [earns, makes] [thirty] dollars an hour
- [earns] [3,000] dollars [per, a] month
- won [1,000] dollars at the [casino, races, bookies]
- stole [thousands] of dollars from the [safe, bank, house]
- can you [spare, spot, lend] me [ten] dollars?
- are paid less than a dollar a day
- the dollar is [strong, weak, firm] (against)
- the dollar has [strengthened] against the [Euro]
- informal: you can bet your bottom dollar!
- informal: paid top dollar for the [vacation, meal, seats]
- informal: another day, another dollar
- a [five, ten, fifty] -dollar bill
- is the million-dollar question
- dollar signs [flashed, appeared] before his eyes
- [works at, owns, runs] a dollar store
'dollar' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
almighty
- bent
- bet
- bill
- billion
- bottom
- broke
- brother
- climb
- come
- conversion
- each
- expense
- fairy
- imprint
- index
- jar
- kitty
- last
- locker
- mansion
- million
- mortgage
- note
- outlay
- payoff
- peg
- penny
- pink
- player
- plummet
- porter
- portrait
- pound
- profit
- queer
- refund
- roll
- salary
- save
- shave
- sign
- silver
- spare
- sponsorship
- sterling
- strength
- strengthening
- stripper
- subsidy