Dollar sign definition

Dollar sign

Topics Dollar sign Definition

WordNet

(1) A mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars

(2) A symbol of commercialism or greed

"He worships the almighty dollar"

"The dollar sign means little to him"

WiktionaryText

punctuation symbol $, used to indicate a price in dollars.

The total with tax is $1.05.
in certain languages (such as Perl or PHP), to indicate a variable.
in certain languages, used to indicate a hexadecimal constant.
in certain languages, used to indicate a constant.
in certain languages (such as BASIC), to indicate a variable or a constant containing text (a string) as opposed to a number.
in regular expressions, used to indicated the end of the string/line.