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dollar sign in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. a symbol of commercialism or greed
    "he worships the almighty dollar"; "the dollar sign means little to him"
    dollar  dollar mark  dollar sign 
  2. a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars
    dollar mark  dollar sign 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


dollar sign in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (noun) punctuation symbol "'$"', used to indicate a price in dollars.
  2. (noun) (programming) in certain languages (such as PHP), to indicate a variable.
  3. (noun) (programming) in certain languages, used to indicate a hexadecimal constant.
  4. (noun) (programming) in certain languages, used to indicate a constant.
  5. (noun) (programming) in certain languages (such as BASIC), to indicate a variable or a constant containing text (a "string") as opposed to a number.
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