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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was.
In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmʌni/, [ˈmɐni]
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈmʌni/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌni
- Hyphenation: mon‧ey
Noun[edit]
money (usually uncountable, plural monies or moneys) (plural used only in certain senses)

- 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.
- A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
- 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.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 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.
- 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
- A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
- money supply; money market
- Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
- The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth.
- He was born with money.
- He married money.
- 2023 July 15, Megan Nolan, “‘I grew up on an “estate from hell” but I have no idea what class I am’: novelist Megan Nolan on the conundrum of identity”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- I grew up in Ballybeg, neither of my working-class parents came from money or went to university, so I was part of a working-class family, I assumed.
- An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- A person who funds an operation.
Synonyms[edit]
- See Thesaurus:money
Hyponyms[edit]
- bad money
- bank money
- bar money
- black money
- blood money
- bullet money
- call money
- cash money
- caution money
- checkbook money
- coat money
- commodity money
- conduct money
- conscience money
- credit money
- current money
- deposit money
- dirty money
- dispatch money
- door money
- earnest money
- easy money
- even money
- fiat money
- folding money
- foreign money
- front money
- full-bodied money
- fun money
- funny money
- gate money
- gun money
- hard money
- head money
- hell money
- hot money
- house money
- hush money
- key money
- knife money
- lawful money
- lunch money
- mad money
- Maundy money
- Monopoly money
- necessity money
- neutral money
- new money
- old money
- paper money
- pin money
- plastic money
- plate money
- play money
- pocket money
- prize money
- protection money
- push money
- ready money
- rent money
- representative money
- seed money
- ship money
- side money
- silly money
- sin money
- smart money
- sound money
- spade money
- spending money
- standard money
- till money
- time money
- token money
- tribute money
- trophy money
- up-front money
- white money
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from money
- a fool and his money are soon parted
- appearance money
- at the money
- bad money drives out good
- banana money
- beer money
- big-money
- big money
- boat money
- boot money
- broad money
- call money rate
- cap money
- channel money
- chimney money
- chimney-money
- Chinese money
- coffee money
- comeback money
- conscience-money
- cost of money
- Cranborne money
- danger money
- dark money
- dead money
- don't get your honey where you make your money
- dumb money
- e-money
- equality money
- fairy money
- fiddler's money
- follow the money
- for love nor money
- for love or money
- for my money
- found money
- fuck you money
- fuck-you money
- glove money
- good money
- grease money
- hand money
- have money to burn
- have more money than God
- height money
- helicopter money
- hell money
- I don't have any money
- if money
- I have no money
- in the money
- invasion money
- I want my money back
- key-money
- knife money
- licence to print money
- license to print money
- light money
- lucky money
- made of money
- make money
- marry money
- Maunday money
- Maundy money
- monetary
- monetize
- money bag
- money belt
- money bomb
- money bomb
- money box
- money box
- moneyboy
- money broker
- money can't buy happiness
- money can't buy happiness
- money changer
- money-changer
- money changing
- money chest
- money clip
- money collection
- money cowry
- money cowry
- money crop
- money dance
- money does not smell
- money does not smell
- money does not stink
- money doesn't grow on trees
- money economy
- moneyed
- money for jam
- money for old rope
- Moneygeddon
- money goggles
- money-grabbing
- money-grubber
- money-grubbing
- money-guard
- money-hungry
- money illusion
- money is the root of all evil
- money laundering
- moneylord
- money-loser
- money-love
- money machine
- money maker
- money-maker
- moneymaker
- money makes the world go around
- money-making
- money man
- money market
- money-market fund
- money market fund
- money mule
- money of account
- money order
- money pit
- money plant
- money primary
- money purchase
- money-ridden
- money scrivener
- money shift
- money shifting
- money shot
- money shot
- money spell
- money spider
- money-spinner
- money-spinner
- money-spinning
- money squeezing
- money supply
- money's worth
- money talks
- money talks
- money talks, bullshit walks
- money talks and bullshit walks
- money to burn
- money tree
- moneywise
- more money than brains
- near money
- near money
- on the money
- out of the money
- pink money
- pin-money
- piss money up the wall
- place money
- play with house money
- postal money-order
- postal money order
- pot of money
- precinct money
- prest money
- price of money
- print money
- put one's money where one's mouth is
- quantity theory of money
- quasi-money
- riot money
- rocking chair money
- rocking-chair money
- rogue money
- run for one's money
- shoe money
- Short money
- shut up and take my money
- single money
- sit-down money
- sit-down money
- smart-money
- soft money
- sold again and got the money
- spending-money
- spend money like water
- spirit money
- spy money
- still got one's communion money
- stone money
- straggling money
- strapped for money
- street money
- street money
- table money
- tea money
- throw good money after bad
- throw money around
- throw money away
- tight money
- time is money
- value for money
- walk-around money
- walkaround money
- walk-around money
- walk around money
- walking-around money
- walking-around money
- white money
- young money
- you pays your money and you takes your chances
- you pays your money and you takes your choice
- your money is no good here
- your money or your life
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Translations[edit]
means of exchange and measure of value
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currency
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hard cash
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available liquid assets
wealth
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item of value used as payment
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person who funds an operation
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References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “money”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “money”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- money at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
money
- Alternative form of moneye
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