What part of speech is dollars?

Dollars can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. dollars is a noun, plural of dollar.

Inflections

Noun

What does dollars mean?

Definitions

Noun

dollar - a United States coin worth one dollar; "the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States"
dollar - a piece of paper money worth one dollar
dollar - a symbol of commercialism or greed; "he worships the almighty dollar"; "the dollar sign means little to him"

Examples of dollars

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1. noun A shipment of weapons, ammunition and explosives, believed to have been purchased from Cambodia and worth several million dollars, left the port of Phuket in Thailand in early February 2001 aboard the freighter Comex-Joux 3.
2. noun Like the tens of billions of dollars that have been "lost" in Iraq, planeloads of arms don't just "vanish"; not when the Pentagon contracts the work to an international criminal of Bout's untouchable stature.
3. noun Mrs. Arafat, who lives in Paris with her daughter, receives tens of thousands of dollars per month from the allegedly bankrupt Palestinian Authority, while a typical local ringleader of the Al-Aksa brigade, reporting to Arafat, receives only a cash payment of a couple of hundred dollars, for performing murders at the retail level.
4. noun The unit of measure against which the price is quoted shall be US Dollars.
5. noun Last thing, send me a million dollars, I'm tired of working.
6. noun The price is quoted in US Dollars per unit of volume, which will be the Contractual Currency.
7. noun Where does our 50% (the 1.65 million dollars) show up?
8. noun Lawmakers and consumer groups allege that the events - directed by the man who heads the state's energy grid - fueled the California energy crisis, pushed the state into the power-buying business and helped make billions of dollars for power producers.
9. noun My father re-secured the petroleum assets of Kuwait in 1991 at a cost of sixty-one billion U.S. dollars ($61,000,000,000).
10. noun Out of that cost, thirty-six billion dollars ($36,000,000,000) were supplied by King Hussein, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf monarchies, and sixteen billion dollars ($16,000,000,000) by German and Japanese partners.
11. noun Unfortunately, our partners from 1991 are not willing to shoulder the burden of this new venture, which in its upcoming phase may cost the sum of 100 billion to 200 billion dollars ($100,000,000,000 - $200,000,000,000), both in the initial acquisition and in long-term management.
12. noun Your name will move up the list geometrically so that when your name reaches the #1 position you will be receiving thousands of dollars in CASH!!!
13. noun We have the technology; if you are going to spend billions of dollars touting "FREEDOM" why not spend those billions making all of us free?
14. noun In the last several months, China has inked deals with Iran for $70 billion dollars worth of Iranian oil and natural gas.
15. noun China's accumulation of dollars is approximately $600 billion.
Sentence  
noun
A shipment of weapons, ammunition and explosives, believed to have been purchased from Cambodia and worth several million dollars, left the port of Phuket in Thailand in early February 2001 aboard the freighter Comex-Joux 3.
Like the tens of billions of dollars that have been "lost" in Iraq, planeloads of arms don't just "vanish"; not when the Pentagon contracts the work to an international criminal of Bout's untouchable stature.
Mrs. Arafat, who lives in Paris with her daughter, receives tens of thousands of dollars per month from the allegedly bankrupt Palestinian Authority, while a typical local ringleader of the Al-Aksa brigade, reporting to Arafat, receives only a cash payment of a couple of hundred dollars, for performing murders at the retail level.
The unit of measure against which the price is quoted shall be US Dollars.
Last thing, send me a million dollars, I'm tired of working.
The price is quoted in US Dollars per unit of volume, which will be the Contractual Currency.
Where does our 50% (the 1.65 million dollars) show up?
Lawmakers and consumer groups allege that the events - directed by the man who heads the state's energy grid - fueled the California energy crisis, pushed the state into the power-buying business and helped make billions of dollars for power producers.
My father re-secured the petroleum assets of Kuwait in 1991 at a cost of sixty-one billion U.S. dollars ($61,000,000,000).
Out of that cost, thirty-six billion dollars ($36,000,000,000) were supplied by King Hussein, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf monarchies, and sixteen billion dollars ($16,000,000,000) by German and Japanese partners.
Unfortunately, our partners from 1991 are not willing to shoulder the burden of this new venture, which in its upcoming phase may cost the sum of 100 billion to 200 billion dollars ($100,000,000,000 - $200,000,000,000), both in the initial acquisition and in long-term management.
Your name will move up the list geometrically so that when your name reaches the #1 position you will be receiving thousands of dollars in CASH!!!
We have the technology; if you are going to spend billions of dollars touting "FREEDOM" why not spend those billions making all of us free?
In the last several months, China has inked deals with Iran for $70 billion dollars worth of Iranian oil and natural gas.
China's accumulation of dollars is approximately $600 billion.

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