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What is a dollar?

What is a dollar? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
  2. (by extension) Money generally.
  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.
  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.)
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Moreover, Ferry said, the rupiah was benefiting from a weaker dollar vis-a-vis regional currencies.
A more telling index of the progress of the War on Terror is the exchange rate between the dollar and the Pakistani rupee.
The boffins in white coats talk as if this huge, multi-million dollar machine is the mother of all video games.
A weaker dollar would give hard-pressed U.S. manufacturers some relief from low-priced imports.
What I find astonishing is that investors consider dollar assets, more precisely United States Treasury bonds, to be safe.
In the next graph we have plotted the monthly price of U.S. dollar Gold and the year-to-year change in U.S. currency circulation, inverted.

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