money

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[edit] English

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• IPA: /ˈmʌni/, SAMPA: /"mVni/
• IPA: [ˈmʌn.i], [mʌn̩iː]
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -ʌni
• Hyphenation: mon‧ey

[edit] Etymology

From Old French moneie (French: monnaie), From Latin moneta. From the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was.

[edit] Noun

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money (normally uncountable, but moneys or monies)

1. A medium of exchange, always having inherent value. Often is a product that is divisible, so it can be divided into smaller units, and durable, so it does not decompose or degrade. Types of money vary between groups, and a group may use more than one form of money. A product naturally becomes money within a group as the consequence of many transactions, where seller A accepts a good not with the intent to consume or use the good, but with the intent to trade the good for another good; hence the good becomes a popular trading tool, or medium of exchange.
2. 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.
3. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.

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

4. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
5. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks. credit cards, or credit more generally.
6. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
7. Wealth

   He was born with money.

8. An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
9. A person who funds an operation.
10. (as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money; monetary.

    money supply, money market

[edit] Synonyms

• beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, dinars, dosh, dough, ends, folding stuff, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, moolah, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga
• (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value):
• (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value):
• (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins):
• See also Wikisaurus:money

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