Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
- 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.
- idiom (for (one's) money) According to one's opinion, choice, or preference.
- idiom Slang (in the money) Rich; affluent.
- idiom Sports & Games (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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To supply with money.
- To convert into money; exchange for money.
- noun See the extract.
- noun The damages which the losing party to an action is adjudged to pay.
- noun 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.
- noun 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 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.
- noun A way or line of investing money.
- noun (See also earnest-money, head-money, light-money, pinmoney, ship-money.)
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
- noun Any article used as a medium of payment in financial transactions, such as checks drawn on checking accounts.
- noun (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). - noun In general, wealth; property
- noun (Legislation) a bill for raising revenue.
- noun a broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; -- called also
money changer . - noun (Zoöl.) any one of several species of Cypræa (esp.
Cypræa moneta ) formerly much used as money by savage tribes. SeeCowrie . - noun a denomination of value used in keeping accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an equivalent coin; e. g., the mill is a
money of account in the United States, but not a coin. - noun a similar order issued by a bank or other financial institution.
- noun [Eng.] a person who procures the loan of money to others.
- noun (Zoöl.) a small spider; -- so called as being popularly supposed to indicate that the person upon whom it crawls will be fortunate in money matters.
- noun a fair or full equivalent for the money which is paid.
- noun a single coin.
- noun money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction; cash.
- noun credit cards, usually made out of plastic; also called
plastic . - noun to gain or acquire money or property; to make a profit in dealings.
- transitive verb obsolete To supply with money.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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.
- noun A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
- noun A
currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). - noun Hard
cash in the form ofbanknotes andcoins , as opposed to cheques/checks,credit cards , orcredit more generally.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
OPEN THREAD 2009
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Even though he values his spending money, his preferences make him susceptible to being used as a ˜money pump.™
Dynamic Choice Andreou, Chrisoula 2007
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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.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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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.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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In "I offered him money," _him_ represents the one to whom the act was directed, and _money_ names the thing directly acted upon.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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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.
Two Wonderful Detectives Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill Harlan Page Halsey
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I have come down to the bare bed-rock of sordidness -- I must have money -- _money!
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Upton Sinclair 1923
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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_.
Paul and the Printing Press Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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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.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910
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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).
Town Life in Australia Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny 1886
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I felt I was seeing signs of the financial lull last autumn when the loose money (players who have fun gambling and are happy to lose) and the dead money (players who aren’t any good, and will lose whether they’re happy about it or not) began to dry up.
Paul Myerscough · Diary: Confessions of a Poker Player · LRB 29 January 2009 Paul Myerscough 2019
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I felt I was seeing signs of the financial lull last autumn when the loose money (players who have fun gambling and are happy to lose) and the dead money (players who aren’t any good, and will lose whether they’re happy about it or not) began to dry up.
Paul Myerscough · Diary: Confessions of a Poker Player · LRB 29 January 2009 Paul Myerscough 2019
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Those seeking new places were advised to offer above asking price (i.e., “cuck money”) on apartments they hadn’t even seen in person but that nevertheless included outlandish broker fees and abased themselves accordingly.
How Can Fewer People + More Apartments = Higher Rent? Lane Brown 2023
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There are plenty of examples of “money brain” out there, but one of the more glaring is Kanye West. Ye, as West likes to be known, seems to think that his success in music and fashion makes him qualified to do everything from run for president to set up a school.
‘No chairs, no stairs, no glass in the windows’: what did Kanye West’s schoolkids get for $15,000 a year? | Arwa Mahdawi Arwa Mahdawi 2023
sonofgroucho commented on the word money
"Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps you in touch with your children." J Paul Getty.
February 10, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word money
"What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money." Henny Youngman.
February 10, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word money
"Show Me the Money by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, Nov. 9, 2008.
November 11, 2008
Telofy commented on the word money
An awkward contingency of history. (Inspired by CMOS 16, 14.98)
February 12, 2011