Meaning

A generally accepted means of exchange..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

I cannot take money that I did not work for.

Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.

She used to spend money every day on makeup.

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.

money supply; money market

He was born with money.

After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers and sisters gentlemen and ladies - for what cannot money do?

Word Forms

• monies
• moneys
• monie
• mony
• more money
• most money

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