Meaning of money | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
2. A generally accepted means of exchange.
   plural, uncountable, usually
3. An unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States.
   countable, uncountable
4. According to one's opinion, choice, or preference: For my money, it's not worth the trouble.
5. wealth
6. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
   plural, uncountable, usually
7. An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.
   countable, uncountable
8. Exact; precise.
9. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
   plural, uncountable, usually
10. To place a bet on.
11. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
    plural, uncountable, usually
12. To live up to one's words; act according to one's own advice.
13. Wealth.
    plural, uncountable, usually
14. the business of buying and selling the curreneies of various countries by taking advantage of differences in rates of exchange. — agio, n.
15. A person, family or class that possesses wealth.
    plural, uncountable, usually
16. the act of lending with interest.
17. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
    plural, uncountable, usually
18. A person who funds an operation.
    plural, uncountable, usually
19. Rare. the science of wealth.
20. the business of buying and selling securities, curreneies, and commodities on an international scale so as to take advantage of differences in rates of exchange and prices. — arbitrager, arbitrageur, n.
21. the use of two metals jointly as a monetary Standard with fixed values in relation to one another. — bimetallist, n. — bimetallistic, adj.
22. the doctrine that paper money should at all times be convertible into bullion. — bullionist, n.

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Examples

“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.”

“He was born into money.”

“He married money.”

“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.”

“This point highlights several of John Money's contributions to the field of behavioral science.”

“Money, Mississippi, looks exactly like it sounds. Named in that persistent Southern tradition of irony and with the attendant tradition of nescience, the name becomes slightly sad, a marker of self-conscious ignorance that might as well be embraced because, let’s face it, it isn’t going away.”

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