Money

Noun

 * 1) A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
 * 2) A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
 * 3) A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
 * 4) Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
 * 5) The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
 * 6) Wealth
 * 7) An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
 * 8) A person who funds an operation.
 * 9)  Of or pertaining to money; monetary.

Adjectives for Money
funded; depreciated; considerable; precious; reluctant; scattering; hoarded; dirty; cheaper; irredeemable; fraudulent; limp; grimy; paper; pin; parental; cold; hard; well-meant; flat; speculator; embezzled; continental; forfeited; worthless; counterfeit; inflated.

Verbs for Money
amass—; apportion—; bestow—upon; bilk of—; cling to—; coin—; counterfeit—; covet—; devalue—; divert—from; divest of—; exact—; expend—; extort—; fritter away —; hoard—; importune for—; lavish— upon; mulct of—; pile up—; pilfer—; plunk down—; pocket—; raise—; rake in—; restore—; reevaluate—; risk—; salt away (colloq.)—; scrape together—; squander—; utilize—; wheedle—from; wring—from; dribbles away; —dwindles; —flows in; —melts away.

Thesaurus

 * 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

Etymology
From moneie:, moneye:, from  moneie:, from  moneta:, from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. Displaced native schat: (from  sceatt:),  feoh: (from  feoh:).

Derived terms

 * bad money; bank money; bar money; black money; blood money; bullet money; call money; cash money; caution money; checkbook money; coat money; conduct money; cost of money; credit money; current money; deposit money; dirty money; dispatch money; door money; earnest money; easy money; even money; fiat money; folding money; foreign money; front money; full-bodied money; fun money; funny money; get one's money's worth; gun money; hard money; head money; hot money; house money; hush money; if money; in the money; key money; lawful money; mad money; maundy money; money belt; money broker; money changer; money changing; money chest; money clip; money cowrie; money crop; money doesn't grow on trees; money economy; money illusion; money laundering; moneymaker; money makes the world go 'round; money market; money of account; money order; money plant; money rate; money scrivener; money supply; money spider; money spinner; money's worth; Monopoly money; near-money; necessity money; neutral money; new money; old money; paper money; pin money; plastic money; plate money; play money; pocket money; power of money; price of money; prize money; protection money; push money; raise money; ready money; rent money; representative money; run for one's money; seed money; ship money; side money; silly money; sin money; sit down money; smart money; spending money; sound money; standard money; till money; time money; time is money; token money; tribute money; trophy money; up-front money; value for money

Related terms

 * mint
 * monetary

Synonyms

 * beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, dinars, dosh, dough, ends, folding stuff, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga
 * See also Thesaurus:money
 * See also Thesaurus:money
 * See also Thesaurus:money
 * See also Thesaurus:money

Translations

 * Afrikaans: geld
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Amharic: ገንዘብ (genzeb)
 * Arabic: ,
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܟܣܦܐ (kespā, kespo)
 * Hebrew: כספא (kespā, kespo)
 * Armenian: փող (poġ), դրամ (dram)
 * Asturian: dineru
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: diru
 * Belarusian: грошы
 * Bengali:, টাকা
 * Betawi: duit
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ေင္ဝ ေက္ရး
 * Catalan: diner
 * Cebuano: monnaie
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏕᎳ (adela)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Cornish: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: aqça, para
 * Czech:
 * Danish: betalingsmiddel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Galician: diñeiro
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:, , λεφτά
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पैसा, धन,
 * Hungarian:, fizetőeszköz
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: pekunio
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: moneta
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, soldi
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalmyk:
 * Kannada: ಹಣ (haṇa)
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh:, пұл,  теңге
 * Khakas:
 * Khmer: ប្រាក់, លុយ
 * Kinyarwanda: amafaranga
 * Korean:


 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Geld
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: പണം (paṇaṁ)
 * Manx:
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo:
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old Irish:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: новац, паре
 * Roman: novac, pare
 * Shor:
 * Sicilian: dinaru
 * Sinhalese: මුදල්
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish: ;  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Swahili:, shilingi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: பணம்
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: డబ్బు
 * Thai:, เงินตรา
 * Tok Pisin: mani
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Uab Meto:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: гроші
 * Urdu:, پیسا
 * Uzbek:, aqcha
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: jild
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: געלט


 * Afrikaans:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܟܣܦܐ (kespā, kespo)
 * Hebrew: כספא (kespā, kespo)
 * Armenian: փող (poġ), դրամ (dram)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: aqça, para
 * Czech:
 * Danish: valuta, møntenhed
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: valuta
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 돈 (don)
 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Navajo:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: arian
 * West Frisian: munt


 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: نقد
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܟܣܦܐ (kespā, kespo)
 * Armenian: կանխիկ (kanxik)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 现金
 * Crimean Tatar: aqça, para
 * Danish: penge, rede penge
 * Finnish: käteinen, käteinen raha, raha
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: כספא (kespā, kespo)
 * Hebrew:


 * Icelandic: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian: contante, grano, conquibus
 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian: grynieji
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: наличные, нал
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Danish: pengesum
 * Finnish: raha, käteisvarat
 * Hebrew:


 * Italian: liquido
 * Swahili:


 * American Sign Language:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 財富, 财富
 * Danish: ,
 * Finnish: raha, varallisuus
 * German: ,
 * Greek: πλούτος, λεφτά
 * Hebrew:, ממון, עושר


 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: saibhreas
 * Italian: benestante, ricco
 * Macedonian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: zenginlik,


 * American Sign Language:
 * Danish: værdigenstand


 * Italian: moneta di scambio
 * Macedonian: платежно средство
 * Swahili:


 * Danish: pengemand
 * Finnish:


 * Italian: finanziatore


 * Danish: penge-


 * Finnish: raha-