Money
['mʌnɪ] or ['mʌni]
Definition
(noun.) wealth reckoned in terms of money; 'all his money is in real estate'.
(noun.) the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; 'we tried to collect the money he owed us'.
(noun.) the official currency issued by a government or national bank; 'he changed his money into francs'.
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Definition
(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.
(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.
(n.) In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
(v. t.) To supply with money.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Coin (or its representative), cash, RHINO, circulating medium, standard of value.
Editor: Lois
Definition
n. coin: pieces of stamped metal used in commerce: any currency used as the equivalent of money: wealth:—pl. Mon′eys.—ns. Mon′ey-bill a bill introduced into parliament or congress for raising revenue or otherwise dealing with money; Mon′ey-brok′er Mon′ey-chang′er Mon′ey-scriv′ener a broker who deals in money or exchanges.—adj. Mon′eyed having money: rich in money: consisting in money.—ns. Mon′eyer Mon′ier one who coins money: a master of a mint.—adj. Mon′eyless having no money.—ns. Mon′ey-mak′er a coiner of counterfeit money; Mon′ey-mak′ing act of gaining wealth.—adj. lucrative profitable.—ns. Mon′ey-mar′ket the market or field for the investment of money; Mon′ey-or′der an order for money deposited at one post-office and payable at another; Mon′ey-spī′der or -spin′ner a small spider of family Attid supposed to bring luck; Mon′ey's-worth something as good as money: full value; Mon′ey-tak′er one who receives payments of money esp. at an entrance-door.—Hard money coin; Pot of money a large amount of money; Ready money money paid for a thing at the time at which it is bought: money ready for immediate payment.
Editor: Sidney
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of finding money, denotes small worries, but much happiness. Changes will follow. To pay out money, denotes misfortune. To receive gold, great prosperity and unalloyed pleasures. To lose money, you will experience unhappy hours in the home and affairs will appear gloomy. To count your money and find a deficit, you will be worried in making payments. To dream that you steal money, denotes that you are in danger and should guard your actions. To save money, augurs wealth and comfort. To dream that you swallow money, portends that you are likely to become mercenary. To look upon a quantity of money, denotes that prosperity and happiness are within your reach. To dream you find a roll of currency, and a young woman claims it, foretells you will lose in some enterprise by the interference of some female friend. The dreamer will find that he is spending his money unwisely and is living beyond his means. It is a dream of caution. Beware lest the innocent fancies of your brain make a place for your money before payday.
Typist: Vern
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Society's vindication of vulgarity.
Checker: Roland
Examples
- There's money in this case, Watson, if there is nothing else. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And do they know that, by that statute, money is not to be raised on the subject but by consent of Parliament? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You'll want some money. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And that money-winning business is really a blot. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I want some money, you know, Aunt--some to buy little things for myself--and he doesn't give me any. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But money is not what _I_ strive for. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The Colonel was so kind--Mr. Crawley might be offended and pay back the money, for which she could get no such good interest anywhere else. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- To grow rich is to get money; and wealth and money, in short, are, in common language, considered as in every respect synonymous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He seemed to save up his Misers as they had saved up their money. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I went once, in order to arrange about the safe investment of my Melnosian moneys, and remained in London some months. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It leaveth no profit for the usages of the moneys; and, besides, the good horse may have suffered wrong in this day's encounter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- O, said the Jew, you are come to pay moneys? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This victory drew down upon Lucius Scipio the hostility of the Senate, and he was accused of misappropriating moneys received from Antiochus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I pray of your reverence to remember that I force my monies upon no one. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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