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money matter
[See matter n.1 21.]
An affair turning upon money. Chiefly pl., the financial side of things.
1552Latimer Serm. 2nd Sund. Adv. (1584) 252 b, It is not a triflyng matter, it is not a money matter. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 74 A money matter can not breake their frendshyp. 1618Barnevelt's Apol. C iv b, I settled the money-matters of the Prouinces. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iv. ii, What if You and I, Nic., should inquire how Money-matters stand between us? 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xii. III. 203 He had been a principal agent of the Order of Jesuits in money matters. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 247 Anxiety about money matters. |