U.S. dollar

Buck, in America

The U.S. dollar is the official currency of the United States, divided into 100 cents.

It serves as the world's primary reserve currency and standard unit for international trade, particularly in commodities like oil.

The painting sold for twelve million U.S. dollars.

Informally called the buck or greenback.

currency

banknote

Printed legal tender

bills · buck · legal tender · notes · denomination · fiat · circulation · tender · wallet · change

reserve

reserve currency

Globally held foreign tender

petrodollar · store of value · safe haven · liquidity · monetary policy · creditworthiness · asset allocation

symbol

green

Color of vegetation

pyramid · all-seeing eye · serial number · watermark · hologram

economy

inflation

Sustained price level increase

  • deflationSustained decrease in prices
  • GDPNational output abbreviation
  • fiscalOf public revenue

monetary · recession · boom · trade deficit · budget · deficit · surplus · treasury · quantitative easing · interest rates

geopolitics

hegemony

Dominant group's control

imperialism · soft power · leverage · diplomacy · SWIFT · weaponization · embargo · global influence · unilateralism · coercion

trade

exchange

Mutual giving and receiving

conversion · remittance · wire transfer · arbitrage · speculation · carry trade · peg · float · devaluation · revaluation

Opposites
currency rivalry/competition

U.S. dollarChinese yuan

China's monetary unit

renminbi · euro · Japanese yen · British pound · Swiss franc

monetary system type

U.S. dollarBitcoin

Peer-to-peer electronic cash

cryptocurrency · gold standard · Ethereum · silver · barter

Family

dollar, dollars, Spanish dollar, USD, dollarize, dollarization, dollarized

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G