She is in her fifties. The bill for dinner came to $43, and she gave him a fifty.
Recent Examples on the WebChina had almost 49 gigawatts installed as of 2019 and should get into the mid-fifties this year.Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2020 Now, today’s middle-class workers in their forties and even fifties will likely get stuck with the huge tax increases. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2020 By week’s end, a man in his fifties would succumb to COVID-19 symptoms in Kirkland, a Seattle suburb. Brett Murphy, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2020 In February, the CDC sent the Army about 10 drops of blood from one of the first Covid-19 patients, a Washington state man in his fifties who was the epidemic’s first US death. Eric Niiler, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020 The organizers had hoped, in particular, for Kipchoge to run in ideal weather—temperature in the low fifties in Fahrenheit, with less than eighty per cent humidity. Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2019 The relative increases are four to five times higher than the increases in workforce gains in people in their thirties, forties, and fifties. Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2020 Some were influenced by Adelle Davis, Lelord Kordel, or other health food proponents of the fifties. Ellen Fort, Sunset Magazine, 9 Mar. 2020 But there’s no doubt about it that that over 60 — in some of the cases recently reported out of Washington state, people were in their fifties, but had additional medical conditions — have a very high spike in mortality rates. Matthew Herper, STAT, 6 Mar. 2020 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from fifty, adjective, from Old English fīftig, from fīftig, noun, group of 50, from fīf five + -tig group of ten; akin to tīen ten
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of fifty was before the 12th century