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top dollar en · NOUN

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Meanings

  1. (US, countable, idiomatic, uncountable) The maximum amount of money that an item, service, or worker is worth; a very high price.
    • Consumers are willing to pay top dollar for distinctive, rare, traditional cheeses. 2006 December 6, “Many ways to say cheese”, in Toronto Star, page F2:
    • Within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter. 1947 September 8, “Aces Up”, in Time:

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