单词 | money-worth |
释义 | money-worthn.ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] wortheOE money-worth?c1430 valuation?c1520 money's worth1578 purchasing power1824 purchasing value1861 ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 67 Alle syche as taken money worþ for gostly offices. 1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 275 Yf they be founde to haue ony money or money worth, contrary to theyr rule. ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xxiv. sig. H4 And if thei..geue no mony nor mony worth, thei shal be cownted heretyckes. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 715 Þat þey may kachen Money oþer money-worthe and mede to fonge. 1668 Earl of Clarendon Vindic. in Tracts (1727) 23 I do positively deny that ever I received..the least sum of mony or mony-worth for any lease made by his Majesty of his customs. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Chron. 101/1 To dispose of his patronage for money, for money-worth, or for any thing convertible into money. 2. Worth in money; monetary value. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] wortheOE valuea1325 cost1340 valourc1350 valure1440 valora1483 valoir1496 valor1496 valuation1549 valent1765 vallidom1790 money value1848 money-worth1854 1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 146/1 He drank the money worth of seventy-two loaves. 1870 J. S. Wright Chicago 399 Corn..consumes more of its money-worth in transportation than almost any important article of farm produce. 1903 Expositor Apr. 271 The value of a gift is independent of its money-worth. 1904 Quaritch's Catal. of Rare & Valuable Bks. No. 227 Jan. 12 It is..equivalent in intrinsic value to an early Quarto, and ought to be equivalent in money-worth likewise. 1928 J. Sykes M. A. Disraeli xv. 143 She would gladly have lived longer, in any afflictions which time brings on, to continue her money-worth to her Dizzy. 1959 Amer. Econ. Rev. 49 457 Taxes should vary with the money-worth of public goods to the individual. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † money-worthadj. Obsolete. In predicative use: worth money, valuable. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] wortheOE beara1393 valuable1539 money-worth1601 1601 G. de Malynes Treat. Canker Englands Commonw. i. 5 Their estimation or value is in regard of money, or other things mony-worth. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Argent C'est argent qu'argent vaut: Prov. Nothing but money is money-worth. 1645 J. Ussher Body of Divin. (1647) 294 Whether it be Cattell, money, or any thing that is money-worth. 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. iv. 31 There is no great difference betwixt this case, and that of loane..; save that there money is let, here commodities money-worth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?c1430adj.1601 |
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