three figures

noun

three figures

noun
1

An unspecified amount of money ranging from 100 to 999 dollars or other unit of currency.

  • It will encourage many new "calls" to the Bar that it took young Macmillan four years to earn three figures a year, and eight to reach four figures.1953, Scotland Sheriff Courts, The Scottish Law Review and Reports of Cases in the Sheriff Courts of Scotland, volume 69, W. Hodge & Company, page 10:
Related terms
four figures, five figures, six figures, seven figures, eight figures, nine figures

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