Etymology : Middle English moneye, from Middle French moneie, from Latin moneta mint, money; more at MINT
Pronunciation : m&-nE
Function : noun
Date : 14th century
1. leading American financial magazine. coins and paper notes which have value, currency; medium of trade; wealth.
2. of girls, the vagin.
3. of boys, the anu.
4. see:
nigga. money\mon"ey\ , n.; pl. moneys (#). [oe. moneie, of. moneie, f. monnaie, fr. l. moneta. see:
mint place where coin is made, mind, and cf. moidore, monetary.].
5. 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. smith.
6. 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.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.
7. 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?l.), any one of several species of cypr?a (esp. c. 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, 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.money scrivener, a person who produces the loan of money to others. [eng.]money spider,money spinner (zo?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.
8. Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
12. To supply with money. wealth reckoned in terms of money; "all his money is in real estate" the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us" the official currency issued by a government or national bank; "he changed his money into francs".
13. 1. Money is the coins or bank notes that you use to buy things, or the sum that you have in a bank account. A lot of the money that you pay at the cinema goes back to the film distributors Players should be allowed to earn money from advertising discounts and money saving offers.
14. Monies is used to refer to several separate sums of money that form part of a larger amount that is received or spent. We drew up a schedule of payments for the rest of the monies owed. see also:
blood money, pocket money.
15. If you say that someone has money to burn, you mean that they have more money than they need or that they spend their money on things that you think are unnecessary. He was a high-earning broker with money to burn.
16. If you are in the money, you have a lot of money to spend. If you are one of the lucky callers chosen to play, you could be in the money.
17. If you make money, you obtain money by earning it or by making a profit. the only bit of the firm that consistently made money.
18. If you say that you want someone to put their money where their mouth is, you want them to spend money to improve a bad situation, instead of just talking about improving it. The government might be obliged to put its money where its mouth is to prove its commitment.
19. If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen. With England not playing, the smart money was on the Germans.
20. If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power. The formula in Hollywood is simple -- money talks.
21. disapproval If you say that someone is throwing money at a problem, you are critical of them for trying to improve it by spending money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful and practical things to improve it. The Australian government's answer to the problem has been to throw money at it.
22. disapproval If you say that someone is throwing good money after bad, you are critical of them for trying to improve a bad situation by spending more money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful or practical things to improve it. Further heavy intervention would be throwing good money after bad.
23. If you get your money's worth, you get something which is worth the money that it costs or the effort you have put in. The fans get their money's worth.
24. to be rolling in money: see:
rolling money for old rope: see rope to give someone a run for their money: see run. Commodity accepted by general consent as a medium of economic exchange. It is the medium in which prices and values are expressed; it circulates from person to person and country to country, thus facilitating trade. Throughout history various commodities have been used as money, including seashells, beads, and cattle, but since the 17th century the most common forms have been metal coins, paper notes, and bookkeeping entries. In standard economic theory, money is held to have four functions: to serve as a medium of exchange universally accepted in return for goods and services; to act as a measure of value, making possible the operation of the price system and the calculation of cost, profit, and loss; to serve as a standard of deferred payments, the unit in which loans are made and future transactions are fixed; and to provide a means of storing wealth not immediately required for use. Metals, especially gold and silver, have been used for money for at least 4,000 years; standardized coins have been minted for perhaps 2,600 years. In the late 18th and early 19th century, banks began to issue notes redeemable in gold or silver, which became the principal money of industrial economies. Temporarily during World War I and permanently from the 1930s, most nations abandoned the gold standard. To most individuals today, money consists of coins, notes, and bank deposits. In terms of the economy, however, the total money supply is several times as large as the sum total of individual money holdings so defined, since most of the deposits placed in banks are loaned out, thus multiplying the money supply several times over. See also soft money. money market money order money supply money quantity theory of ship money soft money.
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