Dollar vs. Sawbuck — What's the Difference?

Dollar (symbol: $) is the name of more than 20 currencies. They include the Australian dollar, Brunei dollar, Canadian dollar, Hong Kong dollar, Jamaican dollar, Liberian dollar, Namibian dollar, New Taiwan dollar, New Zealand dollar, Singapore dollar, United States dollar, and several others.

A sawbuck is a device for holding wood so that it may be cut into pieces. Easily made in the field from rough material, it consists of an "X" form at each end which are joined by cross bars below the intersections of the X's.

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A sawhorse, especially one having a crossed pair of legs at each end.

A coin or note that is worth one dollar.

(Slang) A ten-dollar bill.

Any of various historical silver coins similar to the taler, such as a piece of eight.

A framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse.

Money spent or available to be spent

A ten-dollar bill.

Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.

A sawhorse.

(by extension) money generally.

A ten-dollar bill; also, double sawbuck, a twenty-dollar bill.

A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)

(nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.

A coin of the same general weight and value as the United States silver dollar, though differing slightly in different countries, formerly current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.

The value of a dollar; the unit of currency, differing in value in different countries, commonly employed in the United States and a number of other countries, including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, parts of the Carribbean, Liberia, and several others.

The basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents

A piece of paper money worth one dollar

A United States coin worth one dollar;

A symbol of commercialism or greed;