| money | Origin: 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. 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, 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| moneywort | <botany> A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blood money | 1. Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another. 2. Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| money | wealth reckoned in terms of money |
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| money | the most common medium of exchange |
| money | the official currency issued by a government or national bank |
| money | belt with a concealed section for holding money |
| money | a strongbox for holding cash |
| money | a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home |
| money | one whose business is to exchange the money of one country for that of another country |
| money | cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of South Pacific and Africa |
| money | a person who receives or invests or pays out money |
| money | a person who receives or invests or pays out money |
| money | concealing the source of illegally gotten money |
| money | a market for short-term debt instruments |
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