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greenback

/green-bak/US // ˈgrinˌbæk //UK // (ˈɡriːnˌbæk) //

绿钞,绿钞票,绿票子,美钞

Related Words

currency货币money钱,钱财,钱的问题,钱款bill账单,帐单,钞票,法案dough面团,生面团,面皮,糕饼cash现金,兑现,现钱,兑现现金bread面包paper money纸币,钞票,纸钱,币bank note银行票据,纸币,银票,银行券

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundollar
Synonyms
currency货币bill账单,帐单,钞票,法案bread面包cash现金,兑现,现钱,兑现现金dough面团,生面团,面皮,糕饼money钱,钱财,钱的问题,钱款bank note银行票据,纸币,银票,银行券paper money纸币,钞票,纸钱,币

Examples

  • Not long ago, back in March, the greenback soared as equities fell.

  • The greenback accounted for a far larger share of global banking transactions, as the Communist Party resists calls to ease currency controls.

  • The euro is up 9% against the greenback since April as dollar-shorts build up.

  • (The Brazilian real is down a world-beating 21 percent against the greenback since May).

  • The rest came in a currency then thought far more valuable than the greenback: Facebook stock.

  • Already money markets have begun to adjust the Australian dollar, which in recent months has enjoyed parity with the greenback.

  • The federal salvo was the first multiagency money-laundering task force ever assembled, the U.S. Customs–IRS Operation Greenback.

  • You fed one greenback to a cab-horse down at the Caf Boulevard, said Tootles, trying to be helpful.

  • "Well, I declare," muttered the Deacon, as he fished a greenback out of a leather pocketbook fastened with a long strap.

  • The doctor purchased and paid for the dogs, handing the boy a crisp five dollar greenback bill.

  • It was on this intense labor discontent that the greenback agitation fed and grew.

  • The aggregate greenback vote cast in the election exceeded a million, and fourteen Representatives were sent to Congress.

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