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hundred-dollar word en · NOUN

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1. Synonym of ten-dollar word.
   • Cantonment, he thought. Now there was a hundred-dollar word he would never have known if he hadn't grown up here. 2008, Joseph W. Shaw, To Honor the Dead, UNM Press, →ISBN, page 78:
   • An object is a hundred-dollar word for a pretty simple concept: a chunk of information you create and edit in another program and then plop into a Word document. 1995, Nancy Muir, Nancy Stevenson, Using Word 6 for Windows, →ISBN, page 233:
   • Since then nine trails have been added, plus an additional jump, a pair of outing club cabins, and a "ski pavilion" (a hundred dollar word for a covered shed) 1951, Richard Nye Dyer, “Eaglebrook - Pioneer of Elementary School Skiing”, in American Ski Annual and Skiing Journal, page 76:

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ten-dollar word