Definition of Money
1. Noun. The most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender. "We tried to collect the money he owed us"
Group relationships: Money Supply
Generic synonyms: Medium Of Exchange, Monetary System
Derivative terms: Monetary, Moneyer
2. Noun. Wealth reckoned in terms of money. "All his money is in real estate"
3. Noun. The official currency issued by a government or national bank. "He changed his money into francs"
Definition of Money
1. n. 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.
2. v. t. To supply with money.
Definition of Money
1. an official medium of exchange and measure of value [n MONEYS or MONIES]
Medical Definition of Money
1. 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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Lexicographical Neighbors of Money
Literary usage of Money
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1. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"THROUGHOUT this work, I assume, for the sake of simplicity, gold as the
money-commodity. The first chief function of money is to supply commodities with the ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"Whereupon they proceed to make a law which fixes a sum of money as the qualification
of citizenship; the money is more or less accordingly as the oligarchy ..."
3. Description of Industry: An Introduction to Economics by Henry Carter Adams (1918)
"money Material.—The selection of a proper money material deserves special attention.
In communities where trade was carried on by barter, certain things ..."
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