$

Alternative forms

 * Cifrão symbol.svg

Description
An S-shape with one vertical line crossing it completely.

Etymology
$ appears to have evolved ca 1775 in the United States from a common abbreviation for pesos, also known as piastres or pieces of eight, a P/raised-S ligature PS that passed through a stage resembling ֆ. It was used in the US before the adoption of the dollar in 1785.

Noun

 * 1) money
 * 2) * 1954, 
 * Uncle Ray's Loans
 * We lend $$$
 * 1)  peso
 * 2) dollar
 * 3) * 1977, advertisement page in , #106, page 8
 * Fool all your friends. You'll get a Million [sic] $$$ worth of laughs with these exact reproductions of old U. S. Gold Banknotes (1840).
 * 1) escudo
 * 2) * 2010 Fall, U Penn CIS501 lecture notes:
 * How to provide additional D$ bandwidth?
 * How to provide additional D$ bandwidth?

Letter

 * 1) A substitute for the letter S, used as a symbol of money or (perceived) greedy business practices.
 * "Micro$oft Window$"
 * 1) * 2015, "Pixtopia", season 1, episode 6b of 
 * [the text below is written on-screen in large letters, once Marco reveals his "emergency cash stash"]
 * Marco ' $ emergency ca$h $ta$h

Symbol

 * 1) The symbol for the dollar.
 * 2) The unofficial symbol for the escudo.

Usage notes
When used as a currency symbol, $ precedes the number it qualifies (in English), despite being pronounced second. For example, “$1” is read as “one dollar” not “dollar one” unlike the usage in languages such as French or German: “1 $”, “2,50 $”.

When used for the Portuguese escudo, $ is placed between the escudos & centavos, 2$50. The official symbol for the escudo is (with two bars), but because of the continued lack of support in Unicode, a single bar dollar sign is frequently employed in its place even for official purposes.

Derived terms

 * English:

Related terms

 * Cifrão symbol.svg