An abbreviation for dollar, the standard currency of the United States and many other countries.
Abbreviated from 'dollar,' which comes from the German 'Thaler,' a large silver coin minted in Bohemia in the 16th century. The symbol '$' became its standard abbreviation in written English.
The abbreviation 'dlr' is rarely used compared to the dollar sign '$' or just 'USD'—but it shows how abbreviations compete with symbols, and symbols often win because they're faster to write and work in any language!
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