1 Dime

1 dime = cents

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How Many Dimecoin (DIME) coins Are There in Circulation? As of December 2020, the total supply is roughly 556 billion coins. Given its status as a currency for every-day use, the supply is uncapped, and will continue to expand at an inflation rate of less than 1. 27 followers 1dimedeal (1124 1dimedeal's feedback score is 1124) 100.0% 1dimedeal has 100% Positive Feedback. Save this seller. Side Refine Panel. A dime is worth ten cents, or 1/10 of a dollar in United States currency. The dime was first authorized for use in 1792 and it was introduced into circulation in 1796. How many dimes are there in.

noun

North American Dime
  • 1A ten-cent coin.

    ‘Instead of replacing the popular dime with another coin, it's also possible to see whether the addition of a fifth coin would help.’
    • ‘People often count change by grouping pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, a tendency indicating that, without practice, working memory can deal with only one item at a time.’
    • ‘The first day he had poured out his accumulated pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters onto the table in front of his sister, his face had beamed with pride at his contribution.’
    • ‘Suddenly, the nickels, dimes, pennies, and quarters started flying.’
    • ‘The woman's face fell as Anne counted out exact change from her mass of nickels, dimes, pennies, and quarters.’
    • ‘You have five quarters, two nickels, three dimes and a penny in your pocket.’
    • ‘Here we have ten coins: pennies, nickels, and dimes.’
    • ‘My son collects my change - the random coins that come from little daily transactions, the pennies, nickels and dimes that build up in my pockets.’
    • ‘Pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters were carefully counted.’
    • ‘It has separate pouches for pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters.’
    • ‘Now bring something else to the community or stop asking us to spend our hard earned pennies, nickels and dimes to buy this type of trash.’
    • ‘Then try alternating pennies and dimes and see what happens.’
    • ‘Staring down into it you could see the shiny bronze pennies and silver dimes lying at the bottom.’
    • ‘I supposed it was good that he'd paid because I only had a loonie and a dime in my pocket.’
    • ‘And then she came and sat with me, next to a reflection pool that had been emptied of water, but whose cement floor was scattered with pennies and dimes turned blue from chlorine.’
    • ‘She's more fond of pennies and dimes than quarters.’
    • ‘Using the same group of coins, help your child make a pile of pennies to equal a nickel, nickels to equal a dime, and so on.’
    • ‘If Jimmy saves 4 dimes in his piggy bank every day, how many dimes will he save in five days?’
    • ‘She began digging through her cracked plastic coin purse, slapping quarters and dimes on the counter.’
    • ‘For the change-making task, three quarters, seven dimes, and seven nickels are placed in front of the patient, who then is asked to provide one dollar in change.’
    1. 1.1informal A small amount of money.
      • ‘he didn't have a dime’
      • ‘there's not a dime's worth of difference between you and him’
      • ‘Not a dime of the money stays where it nominally is.’
      • ‘Without a dime of government money we are turning thousands of people per month into independent homeowners.’
      • ‘After all, no matter who goes first overall or who slides into the second half of the first round, you're not going to see a dime of that money, and neither am I.’
      • ‘The two things people need to keep in mind is that we are talking small amounts of money and you cannot afford to lose a dime.’
      • ‘But its minority investors never saw a dime in profit.’
      • ‘I'm an outsider, un-American for not contributing a dime to the $40-billion-a-year diet industry.’
      • ‘The exact economics may be beyond me, but I suspect neither one of us will be saving a dime on this tax cut.’
      • ‘Why did so many investors put so much money behind so many companies that had never made a dime?’
      • ‘‘This has been a large front-end expenditure for us before we even see a dime of revenues from the settlement,’ he says.’
      • ‘The hub deal especially contrasts with the down-and-dirty business of having to bet a billion dollars on a vehicle program that may never produce a dime of profits.’
      • ‘He figured that he might as well live till the whole sham is over, this way he won't have to spend a dime of his new found, hard earned money.’
      • ‘They hardly spent a dime, whereas I spent money so fast, I almost ran out of credit cards.’
      • ‘Inspectors have the right to pop any locks (and you won't get a dime in compensation; they're allowed to do it by law).’
      • ‘Even if you never spend a dime of the reserve, the tax savings on your contributions ensure you'll be no worse off than if you hadn't enrolled.’
      • ‘The vast majority of dot-coms will never see a dime of profits.’
      • ‘He stops speaking to May and refuses to contribute a dime to her education.’
      • ‘That's a lot of loot for a pair of companies that have yet to make a dime in profits.’
      • ‘Sure, he got his contingency fee, but the families wouldn't have gotten a dime without his help, and in many cases, they would need millions to care for their chronically ill children.’
      • ‘We bought our house by borrowing $100,000 from his parents' retirement fund and have not paid back a dime - another nightmare.’
      • ‘Any money goes to people who previously bought the stock for pennies; the company doesn't get a dime.’

Phrases

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    drop a dime on
    North American informal
    • Inform on (someone).

      • ‘I believe that he is one of the senior administration officials who dropped the dime on her.’
      • ‘He would eventually hit the 619 out of no where, then dropped the dime on him for the pinfall victory.’
      • ‘What will ultimately happen to the teenage high school student is still up in the air, but the fact of the matter is that he confessed to the crime after being turned in, and those who dropped dime on him did so for the reward money.’
      • ‘We also wish to thank the kindred spirit who dropped the dime on him.’
      • ‘Even if they didn't reveal your identities up front, once the substance of the complaint becomes clear, he is bound to know who dropped the dime on him.’
    a dime a dozen
    North American informal
    • Very common and of no particular value.

      • ‘experts in this field are a dime a dozen’
      • ‘Tales like these are a dime a dozen, and all have one thing in common: I don't want to hear them.’
      • ‘Ideas are a dime a dozen, but great execution is priceless.’
      • ‘Opinions of the economy's fate are a dime a dozen.’
      • ‘Now they are a dime a dozen - available at malls and departmental grocery shops, with prices ranging from Rs 100 onwards for miniature versions.’
      • ‘Enablers are a dime a dozen for alcoholics and junkies.’
      • ‘If they weren't so hard to come by, they'd be a dime a dozen.’
      • ‘But the passion of idiot youth will have it's way, and such scenes are a dime a dozen; I was prepared to ignore it for the duration.’
      • ‘His kind are now a dime a dozen in our legislatures.’
      • ‘Handsome, dedicated and dangerous young men were a dime a dozen in Ireland, and his frequently dismissive treatment of women didn't help.’
      • ‘Then, while planning his career, he decided upon fitness training because engineers were a dime a dozen.’
    get off the dime
    North American informal
    • Be decisive and show initiative.

      • ‘at some point you have to get off the dime and do something’
      • ‘One more thing, there was a poll, I can't remember - and I don't think we ought to do this by polls, but 71 percent of the American people say get off the dime.’
      • ‘I wish people would understand that, and I wish this jury would really get off the dime and start deliberating a little more conscientiously and get this thing finished with.’
      • ‘There's just no reason for people to really get off the dime and start doing heavy business spending just now.’
      • ‘I really think we're going to be getting off the dime here.’
      • ‘Tell him that whenever he feels like getting off the dime, you will be more than happy to discuss the new developments - and maybe a new name.’
      • ‘My generation learned that if we wanted to accomplish anything, we would have to get off the dime.’
      • ‘Apparently wracked with indecision, the Supreme Judicial Court needs to get off the dime and render a verdict in same-sex marriage in the commonwealth.’
      • ‘I am not getting any younger, and I need to move on if he's never going to get off the dime.’
      • ‘Corporate backers of privatization are urging the Administration to get off the dime.’
    on a dime
    North American informal
    • Used to refer to a maneuver that can be performed by a moving vehicle or person within a small area or short distance.

      • ‘boats that can turn on a dime’
      • ‘He runs beautiful, precision short routes and can cut on a dime.’
      • ‘The Fed Chairman, of course, turned his fiscal rectitude on a dime as soon as the Republicans regained control of the Treasury.’
      • ‘The last couple of years has seen the series shift to arcade-style action, but the new momentum-based skating could spell an end to skaters stopping and turning on a dime.’
      • ‘Well, you know, this investigation has turned on a dime.’
      • ‘He has one of those riding mowers that turns on a dime.’
      • ‘Yes, you've got to hand it to these guys - they can turn on a dime.’
      • ‘Like a battleship, book publishing doesn't turn on a dime, so the old year's trends don't usually determine a new year's books.’
      • ‘You have to be able to turn on a dime when something's not working.’
      • ‘Yes, I know a 60-year-old approach to foreign policy can't turn on a dime.’
      • ‘I don't know what happened first, the insult or the swing, but months of training now meant that I could spin on a dime and hit a ball across an ocean if I had to.’

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Origin

Late Middle English from Old French disme, from Latin decima pars ‘tenth part’. The word originally denoted a tithe or tenth part; the modern sense ‘ten-cent coin’ dates from the late 18th century.

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