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Meaning of 'money' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Money [ n.]
- 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.
- 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.
- In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
2 . Money [ v. t.]
- To supply with money.

Meaning of 'money' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . money [ n]
Meaning (1):
- wealth reckoned in terms of money
Example in sentence:
  • all his money is in real estate
Meaning (2):
- the official currency issued by a government or national bank
Example in sentence:
  • he changed his money into francs
Meaning (3):
- the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
Example in sentence:
  • we tried to collect the money he owed us

Nearby Words:

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