Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Dollar"

A: charge the money to my account ..maybe its what you mean.

A: It’s like down anther word for last

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A: It basically means ‘You can’t do/get a lot with $5.’

A: "42 dollars is too much." means that the given amount of money (42 dollars) is relatively too much for someone. If a person has 50 dollars, then it makes sense that 42 dollars would be too much for them to spend, or lend.

A: "To bet" dollars to doughnuts - if you win the bet, I pay you money - if you win you can pay me in doughnuts.

~I'm so confident about winning the bet, I don't even want money from you.

Tone is informal/ joking

"I bet you dollars to doughnuts someone's phone will ring during the presentation."

"Dollars to doughnuts, I can make two three pointers in a row."

A: When talking about money, "even" means no partial dollar.
$20.35 is not even. (twenty dollars and thirtyfive cents.)
$10.00(ten dollars) is even.

Or no diffrence in amounts.

"even money" means equal amounts.
Also if I say:
"I would like $3.00 for this book and $3.75 for this pen.($6.75 total) "You can give me $5 and we will call it even"
It means you will not owe me anything more.

A: The lawyer wants you to top of your account with 500 dollars before they go to court.

I need to make a mortgage payment, can you top up the account with 500 dollars?

"Top up" means 'add'.
ex. Gift cards can be 'topped up' with money if you use all the money on them.

You can 'top up' your engine oil of it's low, or fill up your car's gas tank and say 'I topped up the tank, gas was a good price today'.

In a restaurant, if you get your drink refilled, you can say it was 'topped up'.

A: When you are talking about an amount of money, it is “a million dollars” with the “s” on the end because it is more than one dollar, Example: I want a million dollars.

But if you are describing something, such as “a million-dollar home” or “a million-dollar car” it is singular, without the “s” on the end.

A: If you say "ten dollars are", I would assume you are talking about ten one dollar bills. Anything else would not make sense.

dollars = one dollar bills, and there are ten of them.

If I heard someone say "Ten dollars is", I would only think of the total amount of money, $10.

Ten dollars is too low of an offer for that painting. It is worth a lot more than that.
To my nephew, ten dollars is a lot of money.

A: Dollars is more commonly used. Bucks is slang/informal.
Also it usually indicates a small amount of money.

"I won't spend more than a few bucks on lunch, I'm trying to save my money."

A: they both mean virtually the same thing. I would use either one of those to offer a job to so.done. they mean the same.

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A: “He took $20 from me” and “He took $20 on me” have slightly different meanings:

“He took $20 from me” means that he took the $20 from my possession, either cash or bank account.

“He took $20 on me” means that he took $20 from me in the sense that he made a deal or agreement to do it, not necessarily taking the physical money yet. (Not commonly used)
“He made a $20 bet with me.” (More commonly used)

A: You owe me two bucks.
I'm short two dollars.
You didn't give me enough change.
I got short-changed. (fine but it's weird to say to the cashier)
You didn't give me the rest of my change.

A: Not bad! It's definitely understandable but you can also try saying it like this:

If I have several million dollars, I will buy houses and wait for their value in the market to increase because I will only sell them once it happens. I'm gonna make money through this.

A: I’d ask them for specifically what you want.

“I’d like to get smaller bills for this hundred dollar bill. Can I get two twenties, three tens, four fives and ten ones?”

Or what ever variety of bills you want.

If you really don’t care which smaller bills you get, perhaps say:

“I’d like to get smaller bills for this hundred dollar bill. Any variety if bills will be fine.”

A: I have ten dollars.
I have a ten dollar bill.
I have two ten dollar bills.
I have a million dollars.
I have a million dollar bill.

A: Nobody knows for sure. It's an old term with an unclear history.

Some people think that it refers to "buckskins", the fur of a deer. In North America in the 1700s, before the establishment of the United States, buckskins were used as money.

Other people think it comes from "sawbuck". A sawbuck is an X-shaped piece of wood, and the first $10 bills had two big X's on the back. According to this theory, soon "buck" came to mean any kind of dollar bill.

Another theory is that it comes from "buckhorn knife", a kind of knife made from the horn of a deer. These knives were used as tokens by poker players in the 1800s.

A: Use this form:

Something or someone is amt of money short.

You're $20 short.
The cash register is $100 short.

But you don't say the money itself is short.

$20 are short. ❌ (to me it sounds unnatural)

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The first one is the normal way of saying it. Very natural, everybody will immediately understand what you mean. If you say it the second way, you will sound horribly unnatural. Everyone will wonder why you are trying to sound like a robot. Even though it is technically correct, don’t do it.

A: × Even if I won a million dollars, my life would not change so much because the things that I want to do would be the same.
✓ Even if I won a million dollars, my life would not change that much because the things that I would want to do would be the same.

× For example ,after I get a million dollars, I would stay with my wife and I would continue working.
✓ For example, after I got a million dollars, I would stay with my wife and I would continue working.

× Even if I buy a big house, it can’t change my life dramatically.
✓ Even if I bought a big house, it wouldn't change my life dramatically.

× That is why a million dollars can’t change my life.
✓ That is why a million dollars wouldn't change my life.

Just a few slight things! :)

A: 2 dollars and 40 cents
or
just “ two forty”