money
(noun) wealth reckoned in terms of money; “all his money is in real estate”
money
(noun) the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; “we tried to collect the money he owed us”
money
(noun) the official currency issued by a government or national bank; “he changed his money into francs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
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
An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
A person who funds an operation.
• beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ducats, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, means, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, simoleons, 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 money
• bad money
• bank money
• bar money
• black money
• blood money
• bullet money
• call money
• cash money
• caution money
• checkbook money
• coat 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
• hot money
• house money
• hush money
• key money
• lawful 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
• spending money
• sound money
• standard money
• till money
• time money
• token money
• tribute money
• trophy money
• up-front money
• myeon, yenom
Money (plural Moneys)
A surname.
A community in Mississippi
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Money is the 5421st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6420 individuals. Money is most common among White (84.78%) individuals.
• myeon, yenom
Source: Wiktionary
Mon"ey, n.; pl. Moneys. Etym: [OE. moneie, OF. moneie, F. monnaie, fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. Moidore, Monetary.]
1. 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. To prevent such abuses, ... it has been found necessary ... to affix a public stamp upon certain quantities of such particular metals, as were in those countries commonly made use of to purchase goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those public offices called mints. A. Smith.
2. 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.
Note: Whatever, among barbarous nations, is used as a medium of effecting exchanges of property, and in the terms of which values are reckoned, as sheep, wampum, copper rings, quills of salt or of gold dust, shovel blades, etc., is, in common language, called their money.
3. In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money. The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. 1 Tim vi. 10 (Rev. Ver. ). Money bill (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue.
– Money broker, a broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; -- called also money changer.
– Money cowrie (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Cypræa (esp. C. moneta) formerly much used as money by savage tribes. See Cowrie.
– Money of account, 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.
– Money order, an order for the payment of money; specifically, a government order for the payment of money, issued at one post office as payable at another; -- called also postal money order.
– Money scrivener, a person who produces the loan of money to others. [Eng.] -- Money spider, Money spinner (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.
– Money's worth, a fair or full equivalent for the money which is paid.
– A piece of money, a single coin.
– Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction; cash.
– To make money, to gain or acquire money or property; to make a profit in dealings.
Mon"ey, v. t.
Definition: To supply with money. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2024
(verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; “The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
