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MONEY SUPPLY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The total stock of money in the economy; currency held by the public plus money in accounts in banks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("money supply" is a kind of...):
cash in hand; finances; funds; monetary resource; pecuniary resource (assets in the form of money)
Meronyms (parts of "money supply"):
money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "money supply"):
M1 (a measure of the money supply; includes currency in circulation plus demand deposits or checking account balances)
M2 (a measure of the money supply; M1 plus net time deposits (other than large certificates of deposit))
M3 (a measure of the money supply; M2 plus deposits at institutions that are not banks (such as savings and loan associations))
