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MONEY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wealth reckoned in terms of money
Example:
all his money is in real estate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("money" is a kind of...):
wealth (property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "money"):
big bucks; big money; bundle; megabucks; pile (a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
Example:
we tried to collect the money he owed us
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("money" is a kind of...):
medium of exchange; monetary system (anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "money"):
appropriation (money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose)
fund; monetary fund (a reserve of money set aside for some purpose)
boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum (informal terms for money)
shinplaster (paper money of little value issued on insufficient security)
subsidisation; subsidization (money (or other benefits) obtained as a subsidy)
token money (coins of regular issue whose face value is greater than their intrinsic value)
Holonyms ("money" is a part of...):
money supply (the total stock of money in the economy; currency held by the public plus money in accounts in banks)
Derivation:
monetary (relating to or involving money)
moneyer (a skilled worker who coins or stamps money)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The official currency issued by a government or national bank
Example:
he changed his money into francs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("money" is a kind of...):
currency (the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "money"):
sterling (British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK)
Derivation:
monetary (relating to or involving money)
moneyer (a skilled worker who coins or stamps money)
Context examples:
He mumbled out that the money had been sent in a letter, and that was all he knew.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
On hearing this, the man said, I will give you something in exchange for those three things; not money, for that I have not got, but something that is of far more value.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
This makes it ideal for cities that have growing demand for public transit, but not enough money to build subways.
(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)
It can cause money and work problems.
(Cancer--Living with Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
I'm satisfied, so please take the money and let's have supper.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They got the money, you say?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Provided with plenty of money and the passport of an old name, I could choose my own society: no circles were closed against me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Fortunately I had money with me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A coded value specifying the principal activity that a person does to earn money.
(Person Primary Occupation Code, NCI Thesaurus)
The principal activity that a person does to earn money.
(Occupation, NCI Thesaurus)
