money

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. 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.
2. n. The official currency, coins, and negotiable paper notes issued by a government.
3. n. Assets and property considered in terms of monetary value; wealth.
4. n. Pecuniary profit or loss: He made money on the sale of his properties.
5. n. One's salary; pay: It was a terrible job, but the money was good.
6. n. An amount of cash or credit: raised the money for the new playground.
7. n. Sums of money, especially of a specified nature. Often used in the plural: state tax moneys; monies set aside for research and development.
8. n. A wealthy person, family, or group: to come from old money; to marry into money.
9. idiom. for (one's) money According to one's opinion, choice, or preference: For my money, it's not worth the trouble.
10. idiom. in the money Slang Rich; affluent.
11. idiom. in the money Sports & Games Taking first, second, or third place in a contest on which a bet has been placed, such as a horserace.
12. idiom. on the money Exact; precise.
13. idiom. put money on Sports & Games To place a bet on.
14. idiom. put (one's) money where (one's) mouth is Slang To live up to one's words; act according to one's own advice.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. 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.
2. n. 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.
3. n. 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.
4. n. The currency of any country or nation; a denomination or designation of value, whether represented in the coinage or not: in this sense also used in the plural: as, English money; the weights and moneys of different nations; a money of account.
5. n. A way or line of investing money.
6. n. (See also earnest-money, head-money, light-money, pinmoney, ship-money.)
7. n. Synonyms and Money, Cash. Money was primarily minted metal, as copper, brass, silver, gold, but later any circulating medium that took the place of such coins: as, wampum was used as money in trade with the Indians; paper money. Cash is ready money, primarily coin, but now also anything that is accepted as money: it is opposed to credit.
8. To supply with money.
9. To convert into money; exchange for money.
10. n. See the extract.
11. n. The damages which the losing party to an action is adjudged to pay.
12. n. In an appeal bond, the amount that should be awarded against the appellant by the judgment of the court upon affirming the judgment or order appealed from.

Wiktionary

1. n. 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.
2. n. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
3. n. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
4. n. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
5. n. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
6. n. Wealth
7. n. An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
8. n. A person who funds an operation.
9. n. as a modifier Of or pertaining to money; monetary.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.
2. n. Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.
3. n. Any article used as a medium of payment in financial transactions, such as checks drawn on checking accounts.
4. n. (Economics) Any form of wealth which affects a person's propensity to spend, such as checking accounts or time deposits in banks, credit accounts, letters of credit, etc. Various aggregates of money in different forms are given different names, such as M-1, the total sum of all currency in circulation plus all money in demand deposit accounts (checking accounts).
5. n. In general, wealth; property.
6. v. obsolete To supply with money.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
2. n. wealth reckoned in terms of money
3. n. the official currency issued by a government or national bank