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noun 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.

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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. Forthe thei went alle thre To pay the scheperde his miné. MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48, f. 53. (Halliwell.) Every man also gave him a piece of money. Job lxii. 11.
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. Money is adopted for the sake of convenience to facilitate the exchange of one kind of wealth for another and as a standard of value. Its common form is that of a stamped metallic currency; but in primitive times, among uncivilized peoples, and under special conditions by civilized people, many other articles have been used as money. Bank-notes, greenbacks, gold and silver certificates of the United States government, etc., all representing coin, are called paper money, and are used for convenience instead of the coin itself. Money in this sense is not often used in the plural, unless to indicate sums of money or different systems of money or coinage. See def. 4. Importune him for my moneys. Shak., T. of A., ii. l. 16. Every lady should meet her lord, When he is newly come frae sea; Some wi' hawks, and some wi' hounds, And other some wi' gay monie. The Knight's Ghost (Child's Ballads, I. 210). What moneys I have is at your disposing; and upon twelve I will meet you at the palace with it. Beau. and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune, ii. 2. There are several different sorts of paper money; but the circulating notes of banks and bankers are the species which is best known, which seems best adapted for this purpose. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, II. ii. Money is bought and sold like other things, whenever other things are bought and sold for money. Whoever sells corn, or tallow, or cotton, buys money. J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., III. viii. § 2. Our ancestors in Maryland and Virginia, before the revolutionary war, and for some time after, in default of gold and silver, used tobacco as money, made it money by law, reckoned the fees and salaries of government officers in tobacco, and collected the public taxes in that article. Cyc. of Pol. Sci., II. 879. Money is the medium of exchange. Whatever performs this function, docs this work, is money, no matter what it is made of, and no matter how it came to be a medium at first, or why it continues to be such. Walker, Pol. Econ., III. iii. 144. With the aid of money all the difficulties of barter disappear; for money consists of some commodity which all people in the country are willing to receive in exchange, and which can be divided into quantities of any amount. Almost any commodity might be used as money in the absence of a better material. In agricultural countries corn was so used in former times. Jevons, Pol. Econ., p. 104.
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. The moneye on this molde that men so faste holden, Tel me to whom that tresour appendeth? Piers Plowman , i. 43. Money can neither open new avenues to pleasure, nor block up the passages of anguish. Johnson. Money, taken in the largest sense, as the representative of all kinds of property, is one of the greatest means of human education. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 266.

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But the money is there to reach others. — Bill Clinton on rebuilding Rwanda
All the detective ever gave us for our money was a picture of her in some junky car with the boy, “Just Married” written in white under her window, and her wearing a veil and laughing.
As soon as the money was all re-counted, and a note made of it, Mr Wilson asked me what I wished that he should do with it. — Poor Jack
Put up the book, Peter; I can't look at it any more to-night; we'll go to bed Joey every day gave more satisfaction to his employer, and upon his own responsibility, allowed his friend the sailor lad to open an account as soon as his money was all gone. — The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook
For the money was there, without a doubt. — The Colonel's Dream

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Middle English moneie, from Old French, from Latin monēta, mint, coinage, from Monēta, epithet of Juno, temple of Juno of Rome where money was coined.

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Formerly also mony, monie; from Middle English moneye, mone, monoye, from Old French moneie, monoie, monnoye, French monnaie = Provencal Spanish moneda = Portuguese moeda = Italian moneta, from Latin moneta, a mint, money: see mint, which is also ult. from Latin moneta, and thus a doublet of money.
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