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dollars-and-cents

/dol-erz-uhn-sents/US // ˈdɒl ərz ənˈsɛnts //

美元和美分,美元和分币,美元与美分,美元加美分

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : considered strictly in terms of money: from a dollars-and-cents viewpoint.

Examples

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • Have you tried to access the research that your tax dollars finance, almost all of which is kept behind a paywall?

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

  • Millions of dollars in renovation later the building is gorgeous—Clean, well-kept, organized.

  • She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

  • He became a doctor in two hours, and it only cost him twenty dollars to complete his education.

  • No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

  • At that time, the postage on letters from that region was very high, sometimes as much as fifty or sixty cents, or even a dollar.

  • I should pay a capable secretary like you—knowing several languages and all that—say forty dollars a week.