Meaning of Specie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.
   uncountable
2. singular of species
   form-of, hypercorrect, singular
3. Money in the form of coins made from precious metal that has an intrinsic value; coinage.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I received one month's pay in specie while on the march to Virginia, in the year 1781, and except that, I never received any pay worth the name while I belonged to the army.”

“‘It was not money or specie he thought himself hunting!’”

““Dick” Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, “Got to ‘scram,’ kid — write if you get work.””

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