Used in a Sentence

dimes

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dimes.

Editorial note

That's a couple dimes to a dollar a day for convenient and safe food preservation in your house.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dimes gathered in one view.

noun

An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.

noun

(US, Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar.

noun

(Canada, US) A small amount of money.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dimes.

noun

An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.

noun

(US, Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar.

noun

(Canada, US) A small amount of money.

noun

(slang) Ten dollars.

Example sentences

1

That's a couple dimes to a dollar a day for convenient and safe food preservation in your house.

2

Flash is dimes a gigabyte, disk is cents a gig and videotape tenths of a cent per gigabyte.

3

What he does or he doesn't do with his dimes is quite simply none of your business.

4

Henslin describes March of Dimes as a bureaucracy that has taken on a life of its own through a classic example of a process called goal displacement.

5

Market officers used to scalp dimes and quarters off the price of every share transacted by deliberately quoting wide spreads.

6

The March of Dimes started in 1938 as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

7

I don't know how effective it will be, but I'd bet dollars to dimes that's the motivation.

8

Human specialists rigged the stock markets so that every share included a premium denominated in dimes and quarters paid directly to the specialists.

9

If the client wishes to avoid being billed for nickels and dimes, they may wish to negotiate terms based on the value of avoiding it.

10

How many other ways is the ostensibly neutral marketplace overseer profiting by offering those who pay-to-play opportunities to shave pennies, nickels, dimes, and dollars from me?

11

Collecting the nickels and dimes is just good business.

12

Nickling and diming while trying to make the nickels and dimes as large as possible is the core principle of the time and materials consulting business model.

Quote examples

1

Yes, but those publishers are getting dimes, nay, pennies, compared to the print ad revenue (should say "were" in terms of print).

2

Of course, Denmark has a whopping 60.2% income tax rate for those making over 55k / year, so their "dimes" are far fewer than my own, but your point is taken.

3

Let me make an attempt: > "That's quite enough for six dimes, today, Fritz." That being said: I'm not sure it's smart to insist on binding your passion only to the money you make from its product.

Proper noun examples

1

The closest thing that came to mine was March of Dimes.

2

Did you even know we eradicated two diseases without the NIH (Smallpox, eliminated in the US by 1897, long before the NIH existed) - and Polio, eliminated through the private nonprofit March of Dimes.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dimes in a sentence?

That's a couple dimes to a dollar a day for convenient and safe food preservation in your house.

What does dimes mean?

An Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.

What part of speech is dimes?

dimes is commonly used as noun.