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$

See also: Variations of "s", ＄, ﹩, , Ֆ, ֆ, ₴, and 弗

$ - Translingual

Description

An S-shape with one (or, in some typefaces, two; see for the usage with explicitly two lines) vertical line crossing it completely.

Noun

$

  1. money
  2. (used everywhere except in the Philippines) peso
  3. dollar
  4. escudo
  5. (computing) cache

Letter

$

  1. A substitute for the letter S, used as a symbol of money or (perceived) greedy business practices.
    • "Micro$oft Window$"

Symbol

$

  1. The symbol for the dollar and peso.
  2. The unofficial symbol for the escudo.
  3. (programming) Prefix indicating a variable in some languages, like Perl, PHP, shell scripts.

Usage notes

When used as a currency symbol, $ precedes the number it qualifies in English, despite being pronounced second. For example, “$1” is read as “one dollar”, not “dollar one” unlike the usage in languages such as French or German: “1 $”, “2,50 $”.

When used for the Portuguese escudo, $ is placed between the escudos & centavos, 2$50. The official symbol for the escudo is (with two bars), but that form is unified with the single-bar form in Unicode. A single-bar dollar sign is frequently employed in its place even for official purposes.

Derived terms

Meaning and Definition of $
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