money
English
Etymology
From Middle English moneie, moneye, borrowed from Old French moneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. Displaced native Middle English schat (“money, treasure”) (from Old English sceatt (“money, treasure, coin”)), Middle English feoh (“money, property”) (from Old English feoh (“money, property, cattle”), whence English fee). Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.
Pronunciation
Noun
money (usually uncountable, plural moneys or monies) (plural only used rarely and only in certain senses)
- A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
- A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
- 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
- Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
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- A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
- money supply; money market
- Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
- The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- Wealth.
- He was born with money.
- An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- A person who funds an operation.
Synonyms
- beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, means, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, simoleons, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga
- (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value):
- (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value):
- (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins):
- See also Thesaurus:money
Hyponyms
- bad money
- bank money
- bar money
- black money
- blood money
- bullet money
- call money
- cash money
- caution money
- checkbook money
- coat money
- conduct money
- conscience money
- credit money
- current money
- deposit money
- dirty money
- dispatch money
- door money
- earnest money
- easy money
- even money
- fiat money
- folding money
- foreign money
- front money
- full-bodied money
- fun money
- funny money
- gun money
- hard money
- head money
- hot money
- house money
- hush money
- key money
- lawful money
- mad money
- maundy money
- Monopoly money
- necessity money
- neutral money
- new money
- old money
- paper money
- pin money
- plastic money
- plate money
- play money
- pocket money
- prize money
- protection money
- push money
- ready money
- rent money
- representative money
- seed money
- ship money
- side money
- silly money
- sin money
- smart money
- sound money
- spending money
- standard money
- till money
- time money
- token money
- tribute money
- trophy money
- up-front money
Derived terms
Terms derived from money
- cost of money
- for my money
- get one's money's worth
- if money
- in the money
- monetary
- monetize
- money bag
- money belt
- money broker
- money changer
- money changing
- money chest
- money clip
- money cowrie
- money crop
- money doesn't grow on trees
- money economy
- moneyed
- money illusion
- money laundering
- moneymaker
- money makes the world go round
- money market
- money of account
- money order
- money pit
- money plant
- money rate
- money-ridden
- money scrivener
- money spider
- money spinner
- money supply
- money's worth
- moneywise
- near-money
- power of money
- price of money
- run for one's money
- sit down money
- time is money
- value for money
Related terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: moni
Translations
means of exchange and measure of value
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currency
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cash
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available liquid assets
wealth
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item of value used as payment
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person who funds an operation
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Further reading
- money in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- money in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- money at OneLook Dictionary Search
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