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Definition of Pecuniary resource
1. Noun. Assets in the form of money.
Generic synonyms: Assets
Specialized synonyms: Bank, Bankroll, Roll, Pocket, Medicaid Funds, Exchequer, Treasury, Money Supply, Escrow Funds, Matching Funds
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pecuniary Resource
Literary usage of Pecuniary resource
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"What is that pecuniary resource, of which the tenth part would be a tax, ...
SIR,—If the pecuniary resource I ventured t'other day to submit to you, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the by Patrick Colquhoun (1806)
"Without such pecuniary resource, the law, as well as the exertions of the
Magistrate, becomes a dead letter: and his efforts for the purpose of promoting ..."
3. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"Luring signifies, literally, the pecuniary resource by which one lives. Benefice,
from Late Latin beneficium, based on classical ..."
4. Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and by United States Congress, Joseph Gales, William Winston Seaton (1837)
"... and that, from whatever causes, the Government, at this moment, is unable to
avail itself of any pecuniary resource but its credit. ..."
5. The Federalist, on the New Constitution by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1857)
"... the judicial from trie legislative powert in any system which leaves the former
dependent for pecuniary resource on the occasional grants of the latter. ..."
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