money
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌn.i/
The English word “money” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- A generally accepted means of exchange.
- A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
- Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques, credit cards, or credit more generally.
- The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- Wealth.
- A person, family or class that possesses wealth.
- An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- A person who funds an operation.
adjective
Etymology
From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of…
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