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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to money: a pecuniary loss; pecuniary motives.
  2. adj. Requiring payment of money: a pecuniary offense.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Relating to money: as, pecuniary affairs or losses.
  2. Consisting of money: as, a pecuniary reward or penalty.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Relating to money; monetary.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to or involving money

Etymologies

  1. From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia ("money"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia, property, wealth. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • frogapplause 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

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