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MONEY/ - 10 definitions found
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Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary MONEY Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary money Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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.] 1. 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. --A. Smith. 2. 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. 3. 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. ). Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Money \Mon"ey\, v. t. To supply with money. [Obs.] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Maundy coins \Maundy coins\ or money \money\ . Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) To turn one's coat, to change one's uniform or colors; to go over to the opposite party. To turn one's goods or money, and the like, to exchange in the course of trade; to keep in lively exchange or circulation; to gain or increase in trade. To turn one's hand to, to adapt or apply one's self to; to engage in. To turn out. (a) To drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of doors; to turn a man out of office. I'll turn you out of my kingdom. -- Shak. (b) to put to pasture, as cattle or horses. (c) To produce, as the result of labor, or any process of manufacture; to furnish in a completed state. (d) To reverse, as a pocket, bag, etc., so as to bring the inside to the outside; hence, to produce. (e) To cause to cease, or to put out, by turning a stopcock, valve, or the like; as, to turn out the lights. To turn over. (a) To change or reverse the position of; to overset; to overturn; to cause to roll over. (b) To transfer; as, to turn over business to another hand. (c) To read or examine, as a book, while, turning the leaves. ``We turned o'er many books together.'' --Shak. (d) To handle in business; to do business to the amount of; as, he turns over millions a year. [Colloq.] To turn over a new leaf. See under Leaf. To turn tail, to run away; to retreat ignominiously. To turn the back, to flee; to retreat. To turn the back on or upon, to treat with contempt; to reject or refuse unceremoniously. To turn the corner, to pass the critical stage; to get by the worst point; hence, to begin to improve, or to succeed. To turn the die or dice, to change fortune. To turn the edge or point of, to bend over the edge or point of so as to make dull; to blunt. To turn the head or brain of, to make giddy, wild, insane, or the like; to infatuate; to overthrow the reason or judgment of; as, a little success turned his head. To turn the scale or balance, to change the preponderance; to decide or determine something doubtful. To turn the stomach of, to nauseate; to sicken. To turn the tables, to reverse the chances or conditions of success or superiority; to give the advantage to the person or side previously at a disadvantage. To turn tippet, to make a change. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. To turn to profit, advantage, etc., to make profitable or advantageous. To turn up. (a) To turn so as to bring the bottom side on top; as, to turn up the trump. (b) To bring from beneath to the surface, as in plowing, digging, etc. (c) To give an upward curve to; to tilt; as, to turn up the nose. To turn upon, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself. To turn upside down, to confuse by putting things awry; to throw into disorder. This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died. --Shak. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary Money Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again in connection with Jacob's purchase of a field at Shalem (Gen. 33:18, 19) for "an hundred pieces of money"=an hundred Hebrew kesitahs (q.v.), i.e., probably pieces of money, as is supposed, bearing the figure of a lamb. The history of Joseph affords evidence of the constant use of money, silver of a fixed weight. This appears also in all the subsequent history of the Jewish people, in all their internal as well as foreign transactions. There were in common use in trade silver pieces of a definite weight, shekels, half-shekels, and quarter-shekels. But these were not properly coins, which are pieces of metal authoritatively issued, and bearing a stamp. Of the use of coined money we have no early notice among the Hebrews. The first mentioned is of Persian coinage, the daric (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70) and the 'adarkon (Ezra 8:27). The daric (q.v.) was a gold piece current in Palestine in the time of Cyrus. As long as the Jews, after the Exile, lived under Persian rule, they used Persian coins. These gave place to Greek coins when Palestine came under the dominion of the Greeks (B.C. 331), the coins consisting of gold, silver, and copper pieces. The usual gold pieces were staters (q.v.), and the silver coins tetradrachms and drachms. In the year B.C. 140, Antiochus VII. gave permission to Simon the Maccabee to coin Jewish money. Shekels (q.v.) were then coined bearing the figure of the almond rod and the pot of manna. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms money n. 1. Coin (or its representative), cash, circulating medium, standard of value, currency. 2. Wealth, riches. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 140 Moby Thesaurus words for "money": Swiss bank account, affluence, affluent, assets, balance, bank account, banknotes, bankroll, bills, blunt, boodle, bottom dollar, bottomless purse, brass, bread, bucks, budget, bulging purse, bundle, cabbage, capital, cash, cash reserves, change, checking account, chink, chips, coin, coinage, coins, command of money, currency, dinero, do-re-mi, dough, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, exchequer, fat, filthy lucre, finances, flush, folding money, fortune, fund, funds, gain, gelt, gold, greenbacks, handsome fortune, hard cash, hay, high income, high tax bracket, in clover, in the money, independence, jack, kale, kitty, legal tender, lettuce, life savings, liquid assets, loaded, lolly, loot, lucre, luxuriousness, mammon, material wealth, mazuma, means, medium of exchange, money to burn, moneybags, moneyed, moneys, monied, moolah, mopus, needful, nest egg, net, notes, on Easy Street, ooftish, opulence, opulency, paper money, pecuniary resources, pelf, percentage, pocket, pool, possessions, profit, property, prosperity, prosperous, prosperousness, purse, rake-off, ready money, reserves, resources, rhino, rich, riches, richness, rocks, savings, savings account, scratch, shekels, simoleons, six-figure income, small change, smash, specie, spinach, stiff, stuff, stumpy, substance, sugar, swag, take, the ready, treasure, unregistered bank account, upper bracket, wampum, wealth, wealthiness, wealthy, well-heeled, well-to-do, wherewithal |
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