 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
money
noun
1: the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal
tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us"
2: wealth reckoned in terms of money; "all his money is in real
estate"
3: the official currency issued by a government or national
bank; "he changed his money into francs"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Money \Mon"ey\, noun; pl. {Moneys}. [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.
3. Any article used as a medium of payment in financial
transactions, such as checks drawn on checking accounts.
[PJC]
4. (Economics) Any form of wealth which affects a person's
propensity to spend, such as checking accounts or time
deposits in banks, credit accounts, letters of credit,
etc. Various aggregates of money in different forms are
given different names, such as {M-1}, the total sum of all
currency in circulation plus all money in demand deposit
accounts (checking accounts).
[PJC]
Note: 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.
4. 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} (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue.
{Money broker}, a broker who deals in different kinds of
money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; -- called
also {money changer}.
{Money cowrie} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
{Cypr[ae]a} (esp. {Cypr[ae]a moneta}) formerly much used
as money by savage tribes. See {Cowrie}.
{Money of account}, a denomination of value used in keeping
accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an
equivalent coin; e. g., the mill is a money of account in
the United States, but not a coin.
{Money order},
(a) an order for the payment of money; specifically, a
government order for the payment of money, issued at
one post office as payable at another; -- called also
{postal money order}.
(b) a similar order issued by a bank or other financial
institution.
{Money scrivener}, a person who procures the loan of money to
others. [Eng.]
{Money spider}, {Money spinner} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
{plastic money}, credit cards, usually made out of plastic;
also called {plastic}; as, put it on the plastic.
{To make money}, to gain or acquire money or property; to
make a profit in dealings.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Money \Mon"ey\, verb (used with an object)
To supply with money. [Obs.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
140 Moby Thesaurus words for "money":
Swiss bank account, affluence, affluent, assets, balance,
bank account, banknotes, bankroll, bills, blunt, boodle,
bottom dollar, bottomless purse, brass, bread, bucks, budget,
bulging purse, bundle, cabbage, capital, cash, cash reserves,
change, checking account, chink, chips, coin, coinage, coins,
command of money, currency, dinero, do-re-mi, dough,
easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, exchequer, fat,
filthy lucre, finances, flush, folding money, fortune, fund, funds,
gain, gelt, gold, greenbacks, handsome fortune, hard cash, hay,
high income, high tax bracket, in clover, in the money,
independence, jack, kale, kitty, legal tender, lettuce,
life savings, liquid assets, loaded, lolly, loot, lucre,
luxuriousness, mammon, material wealth, mazuma, means,
medium of exchange, money to burn, moneybags, moneyed, moneys,
monied, moolah, mopus, needful, nest egg, net, notes,
on Easy Street, ooftish, opulence, opulency, paper money,
pecuniary resources, pelf, percentage, pocket, pool, possessions,
profit, property, prosperity, prosperous, prosperousness, purse,
rake-off, ready money, reserves, resources, rhino, rich, riches,
richness, rocks, savings, savings account, scratch, shekels,
simoleons, six-figure income, small change, smash, specie, spinach,
stiff, stuff, stumpy, substance, sugar, swag, take, the ready,
treasure, unregistered bank account, upper bracket, wampum, wealth,
wealthiness, wealthy, well-heeled, well-to-do, wherewithal
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
MONEY, noun A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we
part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite
society. Supportable property.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Money
Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of
Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in
connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16),
and again in connection with Jacob's purchase of a field at
Shalem (Gen. 33:18, 19) for "an hundred pieces of money"=an
hundred Hebrew kesitahs (q.v.), i.e., probably pieces of money,
as is supposed, bearing the figure of a lamb.
The history of Joseph affords evidence of the constant use of
money, silver of a fixed weight. This appears also in all the
subsequent history of the Jewish people, in all their internal
as well as foreign transactions. There were in common use in
trade silver pieces of a definite weight, shekels, half-shekels,
and quarter-shekels. But these were not properly coins, which
are pieces of metal authoritatively issued, and bearing a stamp.
Of the use of coined money we have no early notice among the
Hebrews. The first mentioned is of Persian coinage, the daric
(Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70) and the 'adarkon (Ezra 8:27). The daric
(q.v.) was a gold piece current in Palestine in the time of
Cyrus. As long as the Jews, after the Exile, lived under Persian
rule, they used Persian coins. These gave place to Greek coins
when Palestine came under the dominion of the Greeks (B.C. 331),
the coins consisting of gold, silver, and copper pieces. The
usual gold pieces were staters (q.v.), and the silver coins
tetradrachms and drachms.
In the year B.C. 140, Antiochus VII. gave permission to Simon
the Maccabee to coin Jewish money. Shekels (q.v.) were then
coined bearing the figure of the almond rod and the pot of
manna.
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