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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishmoneye,moneie,money, borrowed fromAnglo-Normanmuneie(“money”), fromLatinmonēta(“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 nativeOld Englishfeoh, whenceEnglishfee.Doublet ofmint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and ofmanat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.

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money (usuallyuncountable,pluralmoniesormoneys)(plural used only in certain senses)

Twenty Shilling banknote issued by thePennysylvania Colony in 1771.
  1. Alegally orsocially bindingconceptual contract of entitlement towealth, void ofintrinsic value, payable for alldebts andtaxes, and regulated in supply.
  2. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
    I cannot takemoney, that I did not work for.
    Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used asmoney in Western Africa.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'blemoney getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
    • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8848:
      At the same time, it is pouringmoney into cleaning up the country.
  3. Acurrency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
    money supply; money market
  4. Hardcash in the form ofbanknotes andcoins, as opposed to cheques/checks,credit cards, orcredit more generally.
  5. The total value ofliquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
  6. Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth.
    He was born withmoney.
    He marriedmoney.
    • 2023 July 15, Megan Nolan, “‘I grew up on an “estate from hell” but I have no idea what class I am’: novelist Megan Nolan on the conundrum of identity”, inThe Guardian‎[1],→ISSN:
      I grew up in Ballybeg, neither of my working-class parents came frommoney or went to university, so I was part of a working-class family, I assumed.
  7. An item ofvalue between two or more parties used for the exchange ofgoods orservices.
  8. A person who funds an operation.

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Translations

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means of exchange and measure of value
currency
hard cash
available liquid assets
wealth
item of value used as payment
person who funds an operation
conceptual contract
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Adjective

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money (comparativemoremoney,superlativemostmoney)

  1. (US, slang) Cool; excellent.
    • 2011, Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King,Faithful:
      But Schilling was great again today. As my younger son would no doubt say, he's somoney he doesn'tknow he'smoney. Two more like him and never mind the World Series; the Red Sox would be ready for the Super Bowl.

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Middle English

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Noun

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money

  1. Alternative form ofmoneye
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