Money

Word MONEY
Character 5
Hyphenation mon ey
Pronunciations /ˈmʌni/

Definitions and meanings of "Money"

What do we mean by money?

A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market, including among its forms a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note, or a deposit in a checking account or other readily liquefiable account. noun

The official currency, coins, and negotiable paper notes issued by a government. noun

Assets and property considered in terms of monetary value; wealth. noun

Pecuniary profit or loss. noun

One's salary; pay. noun

An amount of cash or credit. noun

Sums of money, especially of a specified nature. noun

A wealthy person, family, or group. noun

(for (one's) money) According to one's opinion, choice, or preference. idiom

(in the money) Rich; affluent. idiom

(in the money) Taking first, second, or third place in a contest on which a bet has been placed, such as a horserace. idiom

(on the money) Exact; precise. idiom

(put money on) To place a bet on. idiom

(put (one's) money where (one's) mouth is) To live up to one's words; act according to one's own advice. idiom

To supply with money.

To convert into money; exchange for money.

Coin, or, more strictly, current coin; stamped metal that may be given in exchange for commodities; gold, silver, or other metal, stamped by public authority and used as the medium of exchange: in this sense used only collectively. noun

In a wider sense, any article of value which is generally accepted as a medium of exchange; also, by extension, something which, though possessing little or no intrinsic value, is recognized and accepted as a substitute for money as above defined, such as paper money; any circulating medium of exchange. noun

Property, in whatever form, which is readily convertible into or serves the same purposes as money as above defined; available assets; wealth: as, a man of money. noun

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.

A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).

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; a person, family or class that possesses wealth

An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.

A person who funds an operation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Money

The word "money" in example sentences

Then comes the funding request of course, give us more money to assess and plan and blah blah..money...gimme...etc and there you have the global warming fraud in a nutshell, wank on about non existent AGW garbage and get the rewardfunding good doggie. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even though he values his spending money, his preferences make him susceptible to being used as a ˜money pump.™ ❋ Andreou, Chrisoula (2007)

If food were the difficulty, and not money, it is not easy to see what great advantage there was in those charitable associations, formed to receive _money_ subscriptions for the purchase of food. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)

Now, in the famine time, the labourer, as a rule, could not obtain money wages for the cultivation of the soil -- a fact well known to the Government; so that _money wages_ of almost any amount must withdraw him from agriculture, from the absolute necessity he was under of warding off immediate starvation. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)

In "I offered him money," _him_ represents the one to whom the act was directed, and _money_ names the thing directly acted upon. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

I always wondered Jake did not come forward and claim his money and beat them, but I reckon he was glad to get rid of them even at the sacrifice of his fortune, and between you and me, it was whispered sometimes that Jake had _money deposited in New York, that no one but himself_ knew anything about. ❋ Harlan Page Halsey (N/A)

I have come down to the bare bed-rock of sordidness -- I must have money -- _money! ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

To be sure, he had heard his father call such money _bribe money_, _dirty money_, and refer to the men who took it as being _bought up_. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)

In this fashion commodities express by their prices how much they are worth, and money serves as _money of account_ whenever it is a question of fixing the value of an article in its money-form. ❋ Various (1910)

There was very little difference in the actual circumstances of different classes -- some had property and some had none '(this was before the gold-fever);' but property was unsaleable for money, and barter only exchanged one unsaleable article for another '(and yet these are the people who nowadays groan about _money_ going out of the colony, and would measure its prosperity by the excess of exports over imports). ❋ Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny (1886)

An 'I say ter you to-day dat ef dat money in yo' pocket ain't _clean money_, don't you _dare_ ter fetch it up heah! ❋ Ruth McEnery Stuart (1886)

Only remember you must go to Katerina Ivanovna to-day, if it has to be at midnight, _with the money or without the money_, and say, ‘He sends his compliments to you.’ ❋ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1851)

After the morning meeting, brother Y. most unexpectedly opened the box, and, in giving me quite as unexpectedly the money at such a time, he told me that _he and his wife could not sleep last night, on account of thinking that we might want money_. ❋ George M��ller (1851)

There was some difficulty about his obtaining the money, for it was _money_ I expected him to bring. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

They did not approve of giving money to the poor, but in cold winters, or dear times, allowed us to buy things at a cheaper rate; this was _money to us_, for when we counted our little cash for the week's marketing, all that was saved to us by our tickets to purchase things at reduced prices, went into our 'little box.' ❋ Hannah More (1789)

: Ages 13-18 • 80\% think \ "it's important to me to have a lot of money in my life\" • 73\% believe they'll be earning \ "plenty of money\" when they're out on their own • 86\% believe they will be on their own by 25 years of age • They project their average salary at: $??? based on their career interests Source: Charles Schwab & Co., ❋ Unknown (2009)

In that the Police Chief gambled with Town $money, or his own money (?) to buy and train the dog, hoping that the costs would be approved by the town folk later.

I do stipulate restrictions on how my money (and it is * my money*, i designed it myself) is used: it cannot be transferred to another country, nor transferred electronically, it is forbidden to reproduce likenesses of it, I offer no guarantee that it will continue to function, I reserve the right to cancel it at any time without notice, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The defendant ordered all the bank's branch heads to transfer money to the bank's central office and used * the money* for personal gain," prosecutor KMS Roni said while reading the indictment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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