dollar sign declaration

i am doing a program on budget at the moment and have already finished the program. The program uses a lot of dollar sign for output. MY question is, instead of having to put in "$" every time in each output, can i just declare it in my list of declaration like this:

char dollar='$';

hence i could use it in the following manner;

cout<<dollar<<housing<<endl;
cout<<dollar<<food<<endl;

instead of
cout<<"$"<<housing<<endl;

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can i just declare it in my list of declaration like this:

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try it and see what happens.

You could.....but I'm not sure why you'd want to. Since "dollar" is six characters and "$" is 3.