Dimes
Nickel
Nickel noun - A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite.
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Dimes and nickel are semantically related in smaller currency in exchange for larger topic. Sometimes you can use "Dimes" instead a noun "Nickel".
Nearby Words: nickeling, nickeled
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During The American Civil War, silver half-dimes were being hoarded to the point that they could not be kept in circulation, and in response the Union issued first paper five-cent notes, and finally a new five-cent coin made of an alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel.
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Incidentally, this is why you can occasionally find pennies from the 1950s in your pocket change, but dimes and quarters stop abruptly at 1965 (the first year with the cupro-nickel sandwiches).
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Uncle Ezra from "Fitting Punishment." As well as being The Scrooge who nickel-and-dimes his customers for every little thing, he treats his orphaned nephew like dirt.
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