money
IPA: mˈʌni
noun
- 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.
- A surname.
- A community in Mississippi.
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Examples of "money" in Sentences
- I have come down to the bare bed-rock of sordidness -- I must have money -- _money!
- Even though he values his spending money, his preferences make him susceptible to being used as a ˜money pump.™
- In "I offered him money," _him_ represents the one to whom the act was directed, and _money_ names the thing directly acted upon.
- To be sure, he had heard his father call such money _bribe money_, _dirty money_, and refer to the men who took it as being _bought up_.
- In this fashion commodities express by their prices how much they are worth, and money serves as _money of account_ whenever it is a question of fixing the value of an article in its money-form.
- If food were the difficulty, and not money, it is not easy to see what great advantage there was in those charitable associations, formed to receive _money_ subscriptions for the purchase of food.
- Then comes the funding request of course, give us more money to assess and plan and blah blah..money...gimme...etc and there you have the global warming fraud in a nutshell, wank on about non existent AGW garbage and get the rewardfunding good doggie.
- I always wondered Jake did not come forward and claim his money and beat them, but I reckon he was glad to get rid of them even at the sacrifice of his fortune, and between you and me, it was whispered sometimes that Jake had _money deposited in New York, that no one but himself_ knew anything about.
- Now, in the famine time, the labourer, as a rule, could not obtain money wages for the cultivation of the soil -- a fact well known to the Government; so that _money wages_ of almost any amount must withdraw him from agriculture, from the absolute necessity he was under of warding off immediate starvation.
- There was very little difference in the actual circumstances of different classes -- some had property and some had none '(this was before the gold-fever);' but property was unsaleable for money, and barter only exchanged one unsaleable article for another '(and yet these are the people who nowadays groan about _money_ going out of the colony, and would measure its prosperity by the excess of exports over imports).
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