money
Definitions
- A surname.
- A generally accepted means of exchange.
- An unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States.
- According to one's opinion, choice, or preference: For my money, it's not worth the trouble.
- wealth
- A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
- An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.
- Exact; precise.
- Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
- To place a bet on.
- The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- To live up to one's words; act according to one's own advice.
- Wealth.
- the business of buying and selling the curreneies of various countries by taking advantage of differences in rates of exchange. — agio, n.
- A person, family or class that possesses wealth.
- the act of lending with interest.
- An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- A person who funds an operation.
- Rare. the science of wealth.
- 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.
- the use of two metals jointly as a monetary Standard with fixed values in relation to one another. — bimetallist, n. — bimetallistic, adj.
- the doctrine that paper money should at all times be convertible into bullion. — bullionist, n.
Equivalents
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Afrikaansgeld
አማርኛገንዘብ
Azərbaycan dilipul
Беларускаягрошы
བོད་སྐད།དངུལ
Bosanskiakčebanflotagranagranoimalikalakaskasakeškintakulalanalovalovelovornakitnovacparaparepastapenezipienezipinezipjenezpjeneziplatarepašoldivalutaбогатствовалутаготовинакешкинталовановацпарапарепјенезрепа
Cymraegarian
Esperantomono
Eestiraha
Euskaradiru
Suomifyffefyrkkahillohiluhynäkahisevakäteinenkäteisvaratkillinkikolikkolanttilatimaksuvälinemammonamanimassimynttinappulaoravannahkapaalupätäkkäraharahnarahoittajariihikuivatuohivaluuttavarallisuus
ગુજરાતીપૈસા
Hausakuɗi
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻikala
Hrvatskiakčebanflotagranagranoimalikalakaskasakeškintakulalanalovalovelovornakitnovacparaparepastapenezipienezipinezipjenezpjeneziplatarepašoldivalutaбогатствовалутаготовинакешкинталовановацпарапарепјенезрепа
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ქართულიფული
Кыргызчаакча
LëtzebuergeschGeld
ລາວເງິນ
Te Reo Māorimoni
മലയാളംപണം
मराठीपैसा
Maltiflus
नेपालीमुद्रा
Nederlandsgeld
ଓଡ଼ିଆପଇସା
ਪੰਜਾਬੀਪੈਸਾ
Polskibeceldydekflotaforsagotówkagrosiwohajskabonakabzakapuchakasakasiorakosztmamonapengapieniądzpieniądzesałatasianośrodkiszkatułaszmalwaluta
پښتوپيسې
Românăban
Русскийбабкибаблобаблосыбабосыбашлибогатствовалютаденежкиденьгиденьжаталавэ́на́лналичныепенязиплатёжное сре́дство
Ikinyarwandaifaranga
Slovenčinapeniaze
Slovenščinadenar
Gagana Samoatupe
Српскиakčebanflotagranagranoimalikalakaskasakeškintakulalanalovalovelovornakitnovacparaparepastapenezipienezipinezipjenezpjeneziplatarepašoldivalutaбогатствовалутаготовинакешкинталовановацпарапарепјенезрепа
Sesothotjhelete
தமிழ்பணம்
తెలుగుడబ్బు
Тоҷикӣпул
ትግርኛገንዘብ
Tagalogsalapi
Setswanamadi
ئۇيغۇرچەپۇل
O'zbekchapul
Wolofxaalis
YorùbáỌ̀wọ̀
isiZuluimali
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.”
CEFR level
A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
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