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Greenback  n.  One of the legal tender notes of the United States; a note of paper currency of the United States; first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Greenback" Quotes from Famous Books



... apprenticed as machinist; at nineteen he was active in a machinists' and blacksmiths' union. After working at his trade in various places, he at length settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and became one of the organizers of the Greenback Labor party. He was twice elected mayor of Scranton, and might have been elected for a third term had he not declined to serve, preferring to devote all his time to the society of which he was Grand Master. The obligations laid upon every member of the Knights ...
— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth



Words linked to "Greenback" :   tenner, government note, clam, ten dollar bill, paper currency, fiver, c-note, bill, one dollar bill, Federal Reserve note, folding money, five-spot, two dollar bill, bank note, buck, twenty dollar bill, hundred dollar bill, note, fifty, dollar bill, fifty dollar bill, Greenback Party, dollar, bank bill, paper money



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