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Why is “one hundreds” in plural form on this stack of hundred dollar bills?
One hundreds (plural) is correct on the label because each individual item in the bundle is a single one hundred - so more than one of them is some number of one hundreds (plural). The point of the ...
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Why is “one hundreds” in plural form on this stack of hundred dollar bills?
What is shown is a stack of one hundred one-hundred-dollar bills. One of them would be a one-hundred-dollar bill. A short name for such a bill is a one-hundred. Thus, a stack of them is a stack of one-...
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What is the word or saying for when you pay money for something, but don't end up using it?
Not a word, but an idiom: "it's all been money down the drain".
to waste money; to throw money away.
literally it means
From the web:
"Don't buy any more of that low-quality ...
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What words describe the relation between "dollars" and "cents"?
The widely accepted term is minor currency unit. Also often referred to as sub-currency, minor unit or subunit.
The internationally recognized nomenclature and technical descriptions of currencies, ...
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A word for something you give and the receiver knows you will come back to get it?
Collateral
(n) property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender
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Correct order for prices per unit
The usual order seems to be £x per y or £x/y i.e. (currency symbol) (number) per (unit size) or replace "per" with a slash.
Looking for examples, I find:
on the BBC website £211 per MWh (...
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Currency with 3+ decimals in words
If you're using the comma where we in England would use a decimal point, we'd say, "Sixty-five point three seven five euros per hour. This would represent the figure of €65.375/hour.
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What happened to the adjectival forms of Belize and Singapore in their currencies?
There is no strict rule based on grammar that you can give as there is no fixed rule for how to form an adjective from a country. Who would guess that French is the adjective from France? So if the ...
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What is the word or saying for when you pay money for something, but don't end up using it?
I'd call it a waste of money, and it's a very common expression.
(noun) money spent for inadequate return
"the senator said that the project was a waste of money"
TFD
a bad use of money. "...
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What would you call a person who keeps track of money?
accountant
noun
a person concerned with the maintenance and audit of business accounts and the preparation of consultant reports in tax and finance. Source: Collins
bookkeeper
countable noun
a ...
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Of pence and pennies
Before decimalisation a shop assistant might say "That'll be one shilling and fourpence please" but the customer might say, "I've only got it in pennies, will that be all right?" And go on to hand ...
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Is there a word for the name or base unit of a currency?
We'll see what others come up with, but it seems to me like the best existing word available might be "unit," as used in the question.
OED definition 3.a. for dollar describes it as a "...
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How to make clear that I am referring to USD in writing smoothly?
If you're following a style guide, check to see what it says.
In some cases, the intended currency will be obvious to the audience so the symbol alone can be used. (For example, if you're telling an ...
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what is a single word to indicate bringing something up to currency?
The usual word is "update", meaning, with more words, to bring up to date. See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/update.
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What is "half a dollar" in pre-decimal British currency slang?
When I was a kid in the 1950s, $4 = £1 - therefore, ‘alf-a-dollar’ = 2s6d pre-decimalisation. I can’t say I’ve heard that expression nor ‘dollar’ (£0.25 decimal) for a very long time.
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Etymology/history of "dib-dob" as military slang for foreign currency
AFAIK
dob (ODO)
verb [with object]
NZ, Australian
informal
2 (dob something in) Contribute money to a common cause.
‘everyone dobbed in a few dollars’
Origin
1950s: figurative use of ...
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What is Skinn & Sheer in the Ambrose Bierce fable: The Rainmaker?
Ambrose Bierce was given to using names with symbolic meaning. The "Rev. Ezekiel Thrifft" uses thrift to suggest how the reverend wishes to present himself: as someone who is virtuous in the ...
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Why is “one hundreds” in plural form on this stack of hundred dollar bills?
These appear to be American banknotes, which look like this (from the U.S. Treasury’s currency education page):
This banknote says “ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS” and is formally called a one-hundred-dollar ...
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Currency with 3+ decimals in words
You can also say sixty five euros and thirty seven point five, or thirty seven and a half, cents. In general, the value is just a number. You can say sixty five point three seven five euros, or six ...
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What's a good word for "Expensive, but worth the money?"
A bit of a range of suggestions - hopefully some of them might be useful:
Good value
Value for money
Superior
Premier
Deluxe
Luxurious
Elite
If you're talking about a particular service, rather than ...
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What's a good word for "Expensive, but worth the money?"
premium
adjective C2 used to refer to something that is of higher than
usual quality [our premium model]
[CED]
(though see the caveat at Better than premium)
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How do you say 100ths of the euro? cents/ centimes
Cent vs. Centime vs. Eurocents
The actual coins say cent, not centime:
Image source: Euro coin designs
According to Wikipedia, centime is only preferred in French-speaking countries:
In the European ...
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Currency with 3+ decimals in words
There used to be a country whose currency actually did have three decimal places: Cyprus.
After decimalisation of the Cyprus Pound in 1955, it was divided into 1000 mils. (This was simplified in 1983 ...
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Is there any connection between 1 bit = 1/8 dollar and 1 bit = 1/8 byte?
According to Etymonline the computer related term bit is the short for “binary digit” but the choice of this word may have been influenced by its more original meaning.
Bit:
small piece," c. ...
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Does the currency sign (¤) go before, or after the amount?
Because it is a generic currency sign, it depends on what currency and in what country it is being used in. For example, in euros, it would be €23 or ¤23 but in american cents, it would be 10¢ or 10¤.
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What word means "change in wealth over time?"
A possibility is net wealth increase. Examples of usage:
The impact of the net wealth increase on consumption is calculated using marginal MPC by net wealth deciles estimated by Carroll et al.
R. O'...
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Correct order for prices per unit
Currency symbols are written before the number but pronounced after it (£1 = one pound). The slash can be used to represent per.
So, your first version is the correct one.
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Why don't Yen and Yuan add an 's' in the plural form?
It might be useful to bear in mind the distinction between the name of a currency, which may be a proper noun, and the name of its primary unit, which is in principle pluralizable, even when this ...
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What is the word or saying for when you pay money for something, but don't end up using it?
Your examples focus on buying services. For the case where you buy an object small enough to fit on a desk, counter or table, you could refer to it as an "expensive paperweight." You could use this ...
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