money

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Medium of exchange

Nouns

1. money, finance, funds, treasure, capital, assets; ways and means, wherewithal; money matters, economics, the dismal science; resources, backing (see means); purse strings. Informal, mad money. Slang, green power, fast or quick buck, scratch, almighty dollar, dash, jack, grease, mazooma, spondulix, tinkle, bread, dust, dough, dinero, gelt, do-re-mi, tusheroon, wine, the needful; megabucks; voodoo economics.

2. (accounting) sum, amount; balance, balance sheet; proceeds, accounts, lump sum, round sum; principal, interest. See accounting.

3. (metal money) gold, silver, copper, nickel; bullion, ingot, nugget, gold brick; currency, circulating medium; coinage, specie, coin, cash, cold or hard cash; [legal] tender, money in hand, ready money; petty cash; pocket, spending, mad, or pin money; change, small coin, stiver, mite; plastic money. Informal, boodle, [filthy] lucre, easy money, pelf, mad money, wad, wampum, megabucks, bundle. Slang, brass, gelt, mazuma, filthy lucre, moolah, mopus, shekels, simoleons, beans, chips, berries.

4. wampum; paper money, money order, note, bank note, promissory note, IOU, bond, bill [of exchange]; food stamp; silver certificate; draft, check, cheque, traveler's check; debit or credit card; scrip; order, warrant, coupon, debenture, assignat, greenback; plastic money, debit or credit card. Slang, paper, blue chips, cabbage, kale, long green, alfalfa, green stuff, lettuce, [long] green, folding money; glory roll.

5. (currency)

a. (United States) dollar, cent, [golden] eagle. Slang, buck, Jewish flag, lettuce, coconut, simoleon, smacker, scoot, clam, cholly, bean, year, ace, two-spot, fin, fiver, five-spot, nickel note, sawbuck, ten-spot, grand, century, bone, honeybee, dime, sawbuck, simoleon, meter, thin one, two bits, four bits; bill, yard, G note, C note; red cent, dead presidents.

b. (Europe) [pound] sterling, crown, farthing, penny, shilling, groat, sovereign, guinea, pence, pony, quid, tenner, sixpence, ha'penny, noble; centavo, centimo, peseta, doubloon, piaster, real; escudo, forint, guilder, tenge, tolar, koruna, kuna, krona, som, kone, zloty, schilling, lat, lek, leu, lev, lit, markka; Mark, pfennig; franc, sou, centime, napoleon; florin; lira, ducat; drachma, obol, denar; Eurodollar, Euro, Emu. Informal, quid, tuppence, tenner. Slang, bob, tanner.

c. (Asia) afgani, baht, won, yuan, yen, dong, taka, dram, rupee, riel, ruble, korbovanets, kyat, tugrik, kip, manat, pataca; shekel.

d. (Africa) birr, rial, riyal, cedi, dalasi, dinar, zaire, dirham, kwacha, kwanza, metical, shilling, naira, rand, ngultrum, ouguiya, pa'anga, leone, lilangeni, loti, pula.

e. (South America) austral, balboa, bolivar, colon, cordoba, sucre, cruzeiro real, gourde, quetzal, guarani, inti, lempira, peso

f. (other) dobra, kina, ringgit, rufiyaa, rupiah, tala, vatu; petrodollar, xenocurrency.

6. wealth, opulence, affluence, riches, fortune, king's ransom; competence, solvency; prosperity; worth, substance; property; bonanza, mint, gold mine, Golconda, El Dorado, purse of Fortunatus. See possession. Slang, arm and a leg, bale of hay.

7. (false money) counterfeit, false, or bad money, stage money; base coin, flash note. Informal, funny money, slug. See deception.

8. dearness, costliness.

9. rich man, capitalist, financier, millionaire, multimillionaire, billionaire; nabob, Croesus, Dives, Maecenas, Midas, Barmecide; plutocrat, tycoon, baron; carriage trade; heir[ess]. Slang, moneybags, zillionaire.

10. numismatics, science of coins, coin collecting.

Verbs

1. monetize, issue, circulate; coin, mint; counterfeit, forge; amount to, come to, total.

2. have or roll in money, wallow in wealth, have a bundle, make a fortune, feather one's nest, strike it rich, burn a hole in one's pocket. Informal, havemoney to burn, hit the jackpot, make a killing. Slang, stink of money.

3. enrich, make rich, line one's pockets; cash a check. Slang, clock a grip.

Adjectives

1. monetary, pecuniary, fiscal, financial, numismatical, bankable, disposable.

2. wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, well-to-do, well off, made of money, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth. Informal, flush. Slang, wellheeled, in the chips; filthy rich; loaded.

3. dear, expensive, costly; precious, extravagant, at a premium.

Phrases — money is power; money makes money; money talks; time is money; you cannot serve God and Mammon; bad money drives out good; money isn't everything; the almighty dollar is the only object of worship.

Quotations — If possible honestly, if not, somehow, make money (Horace), The love of money is the root of all evil (Bible), Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand (Aphra Behn), Money is coined liberty (Dostoevsky), I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me love (Lennon/McCartney), Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money (Gerald Brenan), The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people (E. B. White), Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is (Jean Anouilh), Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did (James Baldwin), If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it (Maurice Baring), To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it (G. K. Chesterton), Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune (Mohandas Gandhi), For money you would sell your soul (Sophocles), Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me (F Scott Fitzgerald).

Antonyms, see poverty.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A medium of exchange]

Syn. gold, silver, cash, currency, check, bills, coin, coin of the realm, notes, coinage, specie, legal tender, Almighty Dollar*, beans*, gravy*, wampum*, shekels*, dough*, roll*, long green*, coins*, lucre*, folding money*, jack*, wad*, bucks*, ducats*, pesos*, dineros*, cabbage*, hard cash*, mazuma*, bread*.

Types of money in various countries include --- United States: dollar, cent; United Kingdom: pound, penny; Russian Federation: ruble, kopeck; Brazil: cruzado, centavo; Mexico: peso, centavo; France: franc, centime; Italy: lira, centismo; Spain: peseta, centimo; Germany: mark, pfennig; Austria: schilling, groschen; Greece: drachma, lepton; Saudi Arabia: riyal, halala; Iran: rial, dinar; Libya: dinat, dirham; Turkey: lira, kurus; India: rupee, paisa; South Africa: rand, cent; Nigeria: naira, kobo; China: yuan, fen; Japan: yen, sen; Indonesia: rupiah, sen; Australia: dollar, cent.

2. [Wealth]

Syn. funds, capital, property; see wealth 1 , 2 .

3. [Merged interests]

Syn. financiers, corporate interests, capitalists, capital, financial structure, vested interests, moneyed group; see also banking , business 4 .

4. [Pay]

Syn. payment, salary, wages; see pay 2 .

• for one's money*,

Syn. for one's choice, in one's opinion, to one's mind; see personally 2 .

• in the money*,

Syn. wealthy, flush*, loaded*; see rich 1 .

• make money,

Syn. gain profits, become wealthy, earn; see profit 2 .

• one's money's worth,

Syn. full value, gain, benefit; see value 1 , 3 .

• place ( or [m1]• put) money on,

Syn. risk, bet, wager; see gamble 1 .

• put money into,

Syn. invest in, support, underwrite; see invest .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

currency, legal tender, cash, *bucks, *dough, *bread, medium of exchange, *wad, *loot, *scratch, *wampum, coin, specie, change, almighty dollar, funds, wealth, capital, riches. ''A good servant but a bad master.''—Henry Bohn. ''Slave or master.''— Horace. ''A good soldier.''—Shakespeare. ''An eel in the hand.''—Welsh proverb.

WORD FIND

• Afghanistan: afghani

• Algeria: dinar

• Argentina: Peso

• Australia: dollar

• Austria: Euro

• Barbados: dollar

• Belgium: Euro

• Bermuda: dollar

• Bolivia: Boliviano

• Brazil: real

• Britain: pound

• Bulgaria: lev

• Cambodia: riel

• Canada: dollar

• Chile: peso

• Columbia: peso

• Costa Rica: colon

• Croatia: Kuna

• Cuba: peso

• Cyprus: pound

• Czech Republic: koruna

• Denmark: krone

• Dominican Republic: peso

• Ecuador: sucre

• Egypt: pound

• El Salvador: colon

• Estonia: kroon

• Ethiopia: birr

• Finland: Euro

• France: Euro

• Germany: Euro

• Greece: Euro

• Guatemala: quetzal

• Guinea: Franc

• Haiti: gourde

• Honduras: lempira

• Hong Kong: dollar

• Hungary: forint

• Iceland: krona

• India: rupee

• Indonesia: rupiah

• Iran: rial

• Iraq: dinar

• Ireland: Euro

• Israel: shekel

• Italy: Euro

• Jamaica: dollar

• Japan: yen

• Jordan: dinar

• Kazakhstan: tenge

• Kenya: shilling

• Kuwait: dinar

• Lao: kip

• Latvia: lats

• Lebanon: pound

• Libya: pound

• Lithuania: litas

• Luxembourg: Euro

• Macau: pataca

• Malaysia: ringgit

• Malta: lira

• Mexico: peso

• Mongolia: tugrik

• Morocco: dirham

• Mozambique: metical

• Myanmar: kyat

• Namibia: dollar

• Nepal: rupee

• Netherlands: Euro

• New Zealand: dollar

• Nicaragua: cordoba oro

• Nigeria: naira

• North Korea: won

• Norway: kroner

• Oman: rial

• Pakistan: rupee

• Panama: balboa

• Paraguay: guarani

• Peru: nuevo sol

• Philippines: peso

• Poland: zloty

• Portugal: Euro

• Qatar: rial

• Romania: leu

• Russia: rouble

• Samoa: tala

• Saudi Arabia: riyal

• Singapore: dollar

• Somalia: shilling

• South Africa: rand

• South Korea: won

• Spain: Euro

• Sri Lanka: rupee

• Sudan: dinar, pound

• Sweden: krona

• Switzerland: franc

• Syria: pound

• Taiwan: dollar

• Tanzania: shilling

• Trinidad/Tobago: dollar

• Tunisia: dinar

• Turkey: lira

• Uganda: shilling

• Ukraine: hryvnia

• United Arab Emirates: dirham

• United States of America: dollar

• Uruguay: peso

• Venezuela: bolivar

• Vietnam: dong

• Yugoslavia: dinar

• Zambia: kwacha

• Zimbabwe: dollar

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun -1. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange: cash, currency, lucre. Informal: wampum. Slang: bread, cabbage, dough, gelt, green, jack, lettuce, long green, mazuma, moola, scratch. Chiefly British: brass. See MONEY. 2. The monetary resources of a government, organization, or individual. Often used in plural: capital, finance (used in plural), fund (used in plural). See MONEY.