different between kangaroo vs dollar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?ng-g?-ro?o?, IPA^(key): /ka?.??.??u?/

Noun

kangaroo (plural kangaroos)

1. A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia. [from 18th c.]
   • 1770, James Cook, Journal, 4 August 1770 [1]:

     Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo, or Kanguru […].

   • 1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis:

     In the woods are the kanguroo, the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].

2. (Canada, attributive) A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.

Synonyms

• (Macropodidae): macropod, roo
• (jacket): bunny hug, hoodie, kangaroo jacket

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• joey
• marsupial
• wallaby
• wallaroo

Verb

kangaroo (third-person singular simple present kangaroos, present participle kangarooing, simple past and past participle kangarooed)

1. To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
2. To hunt kangaroo.
3. To move like a kangaroo

Derived terms

• kangaroo hop

Adjective

kangaroo (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Australia.
   • 2005, Year Book Australia: 2006, Aust. Bureau of Statistics, page 708:

     The rapid growth in Kangaroo bond issues in the Australian market has given rise to an interest in the nature, trend and impact of this type of bond on Australia's international investment statistics. While Kangaroo bonds have been issued for a ...

   • 2017, Jeff Madura, CHANDRASEKHAR & MADURA KRISHNAMURTI (JEFF & HOQUE, ARIFUL.), Ariful Hoque, International Financial Management with Student Resource Access 12 Months, Cengage AU (?ISBN), page 667:

     Furthermore, the issuers access the kangaroo bond market in order to diversify their funding sources. ... driven by factors such as the relative cost of issuance, including hedging costs and the liquidity of underlying derivative and bond markets.

   • 2018, Ben Hunt, Chris Terry, Financial Institutions and Markets, Cengage AU (?ISBN), page 206:

     Non-resident. bonds. Bonds issued in the Australian market by non-resident entities are known as kangaroo bonds. Figure 8.6 shows that kangaroo bonds represent approximately one-third of non-government bonds outstanding, making them ...

   • 2009, W. Peng, C. Shu, Currency Internationalization: Global Experiences and Implications for the Renminbi, Springer (?ISBN), page 62:

     3.1.2 The Australian dollar in the global bond market An internationalized currency also serves non-residents as a store of value ... borrowers issuing Australian dollar bonds in the domestic market (foreign bonds known as ' kangaroo bonds').

   • 1998, Business Review Weekly: BRW

     The market is comparatively liquid and the bonds are free of withholding tax if the funds are used overseas. The Commonwealth Bank has largely pioneered the market. It led the first kangaroo issue, a $150million offering by the (South) Korea  ...

   • 2010, Susan Black, Anella Munro, Why Issue Bonds Offshore?

     Some onshore markets have competed more successfully than others. Issuance in the Kangaroo bond market (Australian dollar bonds issued onshore by non- residents) soared over the 2002–06 period due to a combination of factors. While a ...

2. (finance, investments) Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.

References

• R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, ?ISBN
• “kangaroo” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English kangaroo.

Noun

kangaroo m (genitive singular kangaroo, plural kangarooghyn)

1. kangaroo

Mutation

English

Etymology

Attested since about 1500, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), from Sankt Joachimsthaler, literally "of Joachimstal," the name for coins minted in German Sankt Joachimsthal (“St. Joachim's Valley”) (now Jáchymov, Czech Republic). Ultimately from Joachim + Tal (“valley”). Cognate to Danish daler. Doublet of taler.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?l?/, /?d??l?/
• (General American) enPR: däl??r, IPA^(key): /?d?l?/
• (Canada, sometimes US) IPA^(key): /d?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(r)
• Hyphenation: dol?lar

Noun

dollar (plural dollars)

1. 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 $.
2. (by extension) Money generally.
   • 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society

     Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.

3. (Britain, colloquial, historical) 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.
   • 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.

     We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
4. (attributive, historical) 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.)
   • 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:

     The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco

   • 1956, The Spectator, Vol. 197, page 342:

     For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.

Coordinate terms

afghani, ariary, baht, balboa, birr, bitcoin, bolivar, boliviano, cedi, colon, cordoba, dalasi, dinar, dirham, dobra, dogecoin, dong, dram, escudo, euro, florin, forint, franc, gourde, guarani, guilder, hryvnia, kina, kip, koruna, krona/króna/kronor/krone, kuna, kwacha, kwanza, kyat, lari, lek, lempira, leone, leu, lev, lilangeni, lira, litas, Litecoin, manat, mark, markka, metical, naira, nakfa, ngultrum, ouguiya, pa?anga, pataca, peso, pound, pula, quetzal, rand, rial, rial/riyal, riel, ringgit, ruble, rufiyaa, rupee, rupiah, scudo, shekel, shilling, sol, som, somoni, sterling, taka, tala, tenge, togrog, vatu, won, yen, yuan, zloty

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• cent
• dale
• mill
• mille
• vale
• valley

Anagrams

• old ral

Danish

Etymology

From English dollar, from German Taler, Thaler. Doublet of daler.

Noun

dollar c (singular definite dollaren, plural indefinite dollar)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

Declension

References

• “dollar” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?l?r/
• Hyphenation: dol?lar

Noun

dollar m (plural dollars, diminutive dollartje n)

1. dollar (currency, especially the US dollar)

Derived terms

• dollarteken

Related terms

• daalder

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?? (doru)

French

Etymology

From English dollar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.la?/

Noun

dollar m (plural dollars)

1. dollar

Derived terms

Further reading

• “dollar” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Etymology

From English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???l?????/

Noun

dollar m (genitive singular dollair, nominative plural dollair)

1. dollar

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "dollar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar

Noun

dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarene)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

Derived terms

• dollarseddel

References

• “dollar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar

Noun

dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarane)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

References

• “dollar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From English dollar.

Noun

dollar c

1. dollar

Declension