The phrase "absolute dollars" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in financial contexts to refer to a specific amount of money without adjusting for inflation or other factors.
Example: "The company's revenue increased by 10 million absolute dollars compared to last year."
Alternatives: "nominal dollars" or "actual dollars".
While this might be a small campaign, relative to others, in absolute dollars, on a per-capita or per-student basis it is a very large campaign.
In terms of absolute dollars that's probably true, but as a fraction of our gross national product, we're not doing nearly what some other countries are.
In terms of absolute dollars, Google spends twice as much as Apple on R&D, though it has one-third the revenues.
Schmidt cited mobile as the business outside of search advertising that was most likely to deliver the sharpest growth on a percentage basis going forward, though he said display advertising represented the largest growth opportunity in absolute dollars.
" The White House has been arguing that its plan would give less affluent workers some of the largest income-tax cuts when measured as a percentage of each worker's pay instead of in absolute dollars.
But these are Washington-style spending cuts, not the sort you and I would recognize: i.e., they are cuts relative to a growing baseline, not cuts in absolute dollars.
And in absolute dollar terms, Australia has been in the top three six times.
Mr. Lipsman, the spokesman for comScore, said the company did not yet have an absolute dollar figures from the day.
In most jurisdictions a maximum, usually expressed as an absolute dollar sum and one relatively low in terms of present-day expenditure levels, is set.
Although the amount was a record in absolute dollar terms, the rate of increase in giving did slow, to 4.3percentt from 13.7percentt a year earlier.
Even before the crisis, emerging Asia's consumer spending contributed slightly more (in absolute dollar terms) to the growth in global demand than did America's.
