Grand (one thousand)

April 11th, 2008 by admin

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  1. JoeGottman:

    April 12th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    I always thought this had something to do with the crime of grand theft, which (at least in some places) meant the theft of at least a thousand dollars.

  2. James M. Grandone:

    November 18th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    Great, Famous, Important, or Exalted are my preferred uses for the word. My last name is Grandone and I have searched long and hard to find its origin. That is, since I am none of the above, just curious where such a curious name came from. Wish someone knew.
    Please let me know if anyone out there has the facts.
    Have a grand evening.

    Jim

  3. Don Dierdorff:

    September 6th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    I thought that perhaps a “grand” might be used to describe a $1,000 bill due to the president on the $1,000 bill, Grover Cleveland – the first part of “Grover” and the last part of “Cleveland” “Gr” “and”- hence grand. Just a thought.

  4. Kurt kandy:

    September 25th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    The Grand Watermellon was a 1,000 dollar bill that was sold for well over 2 million for its special print to a collector. I thought that the word “grand” for thousand dollars was derived from that one famouse bill.

  5. Rachael:

    February 15th, 2010 at 7:15 am

    Thank You for this information… i have been wondering why people have started using grand for 1000 units of any currency, but i never got a very convincing answer.. this will definitely help subside my curiosity.

  6. Scott:

    April 9th, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    Other than “six figures”, is there a nickname for $100,000?

  7. Norma Grandone:

    July 4th, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    Hi James, my husband’s last name is also Grandone. You can look up the meaning of the name by going to Google and asking for the origin of the name. You can also get the “Coat of Arms” for the name. It goes back in history to the 700′s. Good luck

  8. two bob:

    September 2nd, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    It’s english not american slang [rude term removed]

  9. Dan S.:

    September 5th, 2012 at 4:26 pm

    “Grand” meaning “$1,000″ is often abbreviated to simply “G”, as in “20G” for $20,000. But these days, “metric” prefixes are becoming commonplace, so $20,000 might also be called “20k” (or $20k). Which can get confusing, because G as a prefix means 1,000,000,000 (one billion). The result is that $20G is a million times more than 20G.

    As for “grand slam”, I had always thought the baseball usage (a home run with bases loaded, scoring 4 runs) was the original one, but apparently that’s not the case.

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