Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of or relating to money: a pecuniary loss; pecuniary motives.
- adj. Requiring payment of money: a pecuniary offense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Relating to money; monetary
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to money: as, pecuniary affairs or losses.
- Consisting of money: as, a pecuniary reward or penalty.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. relating to or involving money
Etymologies
Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia, property, wealth.
(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia ("money"). (Wiktionary)
frogapplause commented on the word pecuniary
It is likewise astonishing that people select homes, mostly for pecuniary betterment, when their children will mate or mismate with those whom they are thus thrown.
—Country life in Georgia
May 11, 2010