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moneyn.

Brit. /ˈmʌni/, U.S. /ˈməni/
Inflections: Plural moneys, monies.
Forms: Middle English menoye (transmission error), Middle English mon (transmission error), Middle English monnoy, Middle English monnoye, Middle English monoie, Middle English monoye, Middle English moonay, Middle English moone, Middle English moynay, Middle English–1500s monay, Middle English–1500s monaye, Middle English–1500s mone, Middle English–1500s monee, Middle English–1500s moneie, Middle English–1500s monneye, Middle English–1600s monei, Middle English–1600s moneye, Middle English–1600s monney, Middle English–1600s monny, Middle English–1600s monye, Middle English–1700s mony, Middle English– money, 1500s moiny, 1500s monej, 1500s monnye, 1500s moony, 1500s–1600s monie, 1600s munie, 1600s munny; Scottish pre-1700 miony, pre-1700 mona, pre-1700 monae, pre-1700 monay, pre-1700 monaye, pre-1700 mone, pre-1700 monee, pre-1700 moneȝ, pre-1700 monei, pre-1700 moneth, pre-1700 monetht, pre-1700 moneye, pre-1700 moneyie, pre-1700 monȝe, pre-1700 monie, pre-1700 monnay, pre-1700 monney, pre-1700 monnie, pre-1700 monnij, pre-1700 monny, pre-1700 1700s mony, pre-1700 monye, pre-1700 moune, pre-1700 mouney, pre-1700 mowny, pre-1700 mune, pre-1700 muneth, pre-1700 muni, pre-1700 munie, pre-1700 munne, pre-1700 munney, pre-1700 munny, pre-1700 muny, pre-1700 mvny, pre-1700 mvnye, pre-1700 mwny, pre-1700 mwnye, pre-1700 1700s– money; Irish English 1800s moaney, 1800s monie, 1800s monnie.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French monai, monoie.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman monai, moné, monee, moneie, monoie, munee, munei and Old French, Middle French monoie, monnoie, moneie, monee, monae, monaye coin, mint (late 12th cent.; compare French monnaie change) < classical Latin monēta , originally the name of a goddess (in classical times regarded as identical with Juno) in whose temple at Rome money was coined, hence, a mint, money; further etymology uncertain, perhaps a foreign loanword, but associated (from ancient times) by popular etymology with monēre to warn, remind (see moneo n.). Compare Old Occitan moneda (c1145), Spanish moneda (1169), Catalan moneda (c1250), Portuguese moeda (1211), Italian moneta (1213 or earlier). Compare mint n.1In the plural, both moneys and monies are found in modern use; monies occurs especially in legal contexts (see sense 3). The word is perhaps attested earlier as a surname, Thomas le Mony (1284–5), though it is unclear whether the name does show this word, and if so whether it is to be interpreted as Middle English or Anglo-Norman. Scottish forms in final -th, -tht may be after an Old French form with intervocalic -d-.
1. Any generally accepted medium of exchange which enables a society to trade goods without the need for barter; any objects or tokens regarded as a store of value and used as a medium of exchange.
a. Coins and banknotes collectively as a medium of exchange. Later also more widely: any written, printed, or electronic record of ownership of the values represented by coins and notes which is generally accepted as equivalent to or exchangeable for these.After the introduction of banknotes, money was apparently sometimes used of coins as opposed to paper money: see quot. 1777. In recent use no such distinction is made, although contextually the word may refer to one or the other.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
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Mammon1539
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will-do-all1583
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(the) Spanish1788
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L. S. D.1835
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tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
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dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
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soap1860
sugar1862
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wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
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Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
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doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun]
mintOE
moneya1325
coin1393
ready money1429
plate?a1439
coinage1467
cunyec1480
cogc1555
table money1565
chinks1577
cash1596
speciesa1618
spetia1620
specie1671
coliander seed1699
coriander-seed1737
shiners1760
jinkc1775
decimal coinage1794
coriander1801
hard currency1816
rowdy1831
Oscar Asche1905
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > coins and notes
money1819
a1325 (?c1300) Northern Passion (Cambr. Gg.1.1) 160 (MED) Þei iyef him..Þrythi plates of god mone.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 26 (MED) Of guod metal hy makeþ ualse moneye.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 238 (MED) Edward..wille wite certeyn who schent has his mone.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. 343 (MED) Þe merke of þat mone is good, ac þe metal is fieble.
a1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Bodl. e Mus.) 83 (MED) He asked for to haue alwoy ful his pors of mone of gold.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 116 (MED) Fals plate þei make as thei can, Or monay to begile som good trew man.
1567 Protocol Bks. T. Johnsoun (1920) 156 The money was offered in a lynnyng clout.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings xxi. 2 I will giue thee the worth of it in money . View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iv. 15 Words are wise mens counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the mony of fooles.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 3. ¶5 Behind the Throne was a prodigious Heap of Bags of Mony.
1777 S. Johnson Let. 20 Sept. (1992) III. 71 Beg Master to send me..a note of ten pounds..which I will..return..in money or Bankpaper.
1819 Noble's Instr. Emigr. U.S. 107 The best money to take to the United States, is either guineas or Spanish milled dollars;..Bank of England notes will not do.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ix. 180 It's no use filling your pocket full o' money if you've got a hole in the corner.
1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 529/2 No one hesitates in counting a £5 Bank of England note as money.
1880 Fraser's Mag. May 675 Only 3l. in each 100l. were cash—that is, coin and bank notes, true money.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 18 June 2/1 In international commerce the form of money most used is a bill of exchange, and a good bill is good money.
1939 J. B. Priestley Let People Sing x. 256 Knocker brought out some money and examined it... ‘A nicker, half a bar, a caser an' a hole.’
1969 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games (ed. 2) II. x. 138 Many of these casting-counters, or jetons, simulated coins, and cause difficulty to collectors of medieval money.
1990 B. Burrough & J. Helyar Barbarians at Gate xiv. 386 Finn's plan called for First Boston to acquire RJR food businesses for a bundle of securities known as installment notes... First Boston could take those notes to a major bank and receive money for them.
b. Any other objects or materials which serve the same purpose as coins or banknotes. Cf. token n. 11a. Chiefly historical.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun]
money?a1425
medium of exchange1695
currency1729
circulation1790
circulating medium1803
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 157 He [sc. the great Khan]..makethe no money but of lether emprinted or of papyre.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fiij The monie which they vse, is made of a certayne paper..with ye kinges ymage printed theron.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. Introd. 22 Salt is the principall thing which runneth currant for money throughout all the emperours dominions.
1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca ii. xix. 177 In cases of emergency..the Spartans were allowed the use of money made from the skins of beasts.
1878 L. Jewitt Ceramic Art II. 141 One peculiarity connected with the Pinxton China Works..is the issuing of china tokens, i.e., tokens representing different values of money, made of china, and payable as money among the workpeople.
1997 J. Williams Money viii. 208 Mary Douglas spent time living among the Lele people..and in 1958 published an account of their use of cloth money in a country dominated by the coin-using Belgian colonial authorities.
2.
a. Means of payment considered as representing value or purchasing power; the power of purchase or means of exchange represented by coins, banknotes, cheques, etc. Hence: property, possessions, resources, etc., viewed as having exchangeable value or a value expressible in terms of monetary units; liquid assets, funds.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > a person's collective property or substance
thingOE
chattela1240
cattlec1275
i-wonc1275
moneya1325
tilea1325
statec1330
thrifta1350
substancea1382
chevance1477
graith?a1513
estate1563
wortha1586
thrive1592
fortune1596
store1600
boodle1699
circumstancea1704
a1325 St. Mary of Egypt (Corpus Cambr.) 41 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 138 (MED) Nabbe ich..oþer moneie bote mi sulue her.
c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 703 Vpon a day he gat hym moore moneye Than that the persun gat in monthes tweye.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 394 To marchaunden with monoye [v.r. moneie] and maken her eschaunges.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 252 (MED) Mony makyth schapman.
1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xxxiii Then were he very cruell in that he delyueryth theym not wythout mony.
1584 W. Averell Dyall for Dainty Darlings sig. Cii There was..a certaine Knight, who..thought that such a masse of money, as he possessed, would counterpayse the simplicitie of his stocke, and beare out the base ignobillitie of his byrth.
1613 J. Chamberlain in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 264 But you had not need meet with many such poor moths as Master Pory, who must have both meat and money.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 122 Sometimes..Justice cannot be had without mony.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. i. iii. 15 They have introduced the custom of giving money to servants.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. i. 2 Wealth and money..are in common language considered as in every respect synonymous.
1838 Congress. Globe June 470/2 App. The amount of money..is a very high and heaping price.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xviii. 301 He already owed half a million of money.
1890 Murray's Mag. June 764 He'll come into a lot of money some fine day.
1929 M. Lief Hangover xviii. 281 That damn fool took all his money out of the savings bank and put it in some crappy oil stock in Wall Street.
1962 L. Namier Crossroads of Power xvi. 178 The result..can be summed up by saying that his fortune in money was at least £35,000 better than he found it.
1987 W. Raeper George MacDonald xi. 103 Money was still short..and would become shorter as Louisa was expecting another baby.
b. With demonstrative or possessive adjective, or the. A monetary amount or sum applied to a particular purpose or in the possession of a particular person.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun]
coffer1377
pursec1384
possibilityc1385
moneyc1390
financec1475
abilityc1503
purse stringc1530
moyen1547
means1560
financy1600
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fonds1669
wherewith1674
apoinctee1682
funds1700
ways and means1738
money stock1743
pecuniary1748
pecuniar1793
wherewithal1809
ante1843
pocketbook1897
c1390 G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale 1478 Ye knowe..Of chapmen, that hir moneye is hir plow.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 16475 Here i yeld yow yur mone, ges me a-gain mi war.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 27 This mony not to be delyuerid to noon of hem.
1524 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) IV. 91 The monye ȝe gaif the Qweyne that sche has spendyt it.
1588 R. Greene Perimedes sig. e4 Whether shall we estimate the mony that king Pyrrhus sent to Fabbritius, or els the continencie of Fabritius which made deniall of the same.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 63 The monie that you owe me for the Chaine. View more context for this quotation
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 203 Then said one of them, I will pay you when I take my Mony . View more context for this quotation
1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella vii You lose all your money at cards, sirrah Stella.
1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 68/1 You have for a long time had my money; it shall remain no longer with you.
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 160 The whole of the money must be made good that night week.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed iii. 36 Come back when your money's spent.
1954 I. Murdoch Under Net iv. 61 You pay your money..and you get an absolutely momentary pleasure with no nonsense about it.
1988 Bella 4 Apr. 7/5 I asked her for the money back, but she laughed and told me that there was nothing I could do.
c. spec. Money treated as a marketable commodity that can be bought, borrowed, etc.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun] > as a commodity
specie1671
moneya1687
short-money1865
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) vi. 100 It is certain that mony which payeth those Rents, and driveth on Trade, must have increased also.
1691 D. North Disc. Trade Pref. sig. B2 Money is a Merchandize, whereof there may be a glut, as well as a scarcity.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. i. 13 It is not any scarcity of gold and silver, but the difficulty which such people find in borrowing, and which their creditors find in getting payment, that occasions the general complaint of the scarcity of money.
1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Sel. Wks. III. 208 The value of money must be judged, like every thing else, from it's rate at market.
1878 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 721/1 In mercantile phraseology the value of money means the interest charged for the use of loanable capital. Thus, when the market rate of interest is high money is said to be dear, when it is low money is regarded as cheap.
1972 Daily Tel. 4 Nov. 28/4 By lending those funds on mortgage, the [building] societies, which are mutual and non profit-making, pass on the benefit of the short-term cost of money to long-term borrowers.
1992 Independent 8 Apr. 29/4 Cheap money and rampant speculation pushed the Nikkei up to nearly 39,000.
d. Wealth, esp. inherited wealth; a person or class possessing wealth. Cf. also new money n., old money adj. and n.
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun]
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richdomc1225
richesses?c1225
wealtha1275
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wonea1300
merchandisec1300
aver1330
richesc1330
substancea1382
abundancec1384
suffisance1390
talenta1400
pelf?a1505
opulence?1518
wealthsa1533
money bag1562
capital1569
opulency1584
affluency1591
affluence1593
exuberance1675
nabobism1784
money1848
1848 Amer. Whig Rev. Apr. 392/1 The stronger an article smells of money, the more distinction its use will confer.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. v. 68 Everything on this snug property was bright, thriving, and well kept... Everything looked like money.
1925 E. J. P. Benn Confessions of Capitalist i. 21 Women over- or under-dressed, oozing money, and giving from their conversation no trace of education or of finer feeling.
1987 R. Guy And I heard Bird Sing vii. 66 Because he was white, looked like money, and claimed rights to property. That put him on the right side of the law.
1992 News of World 15 Nov. (Suppl.) 44/3 Wearing a thick gold chain round his neck..and a diamond and gold ring on his finger, he reeked of money.
e. Chiefly Horse Racing and Gambling (originally U.S.). With preceding ordinal number: the prize or prize money associated with finishing in the placing denoted by the number in a competitive event; this placing itself. Cf. in the money at Phrases 1b(b). Cf. also place money n. at place n.1 Compounds 2, show n.1 9.
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1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 440/1 It seems to be the opinion of our party that he sold us all out in the interest of Barker & Co. I am informed he collected second money and ‘lit out’ for Brighton.
1894 14th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 96 He trotted in seventeen races..; won nine first moneys.
1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 44 This guy Shumann that took second money this afternoon, that come up from fourth in a crate that all the guys..said couldn't even show.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 17/9 Hill Tracer..took second money by a neck.
1999 Racing Post (Electronic ed.) 23 Jan. He's in good form although, realistically, we're probably talking about third or fourth money.
f. Wages, salary; a person's pay or remuneration; profit.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun]
hirec1000
shipec1000
shipingc1275
servicec1300
soldc1330
wage1338
payment1370
reward1371
pay?a1400
mercedec1400
remunerationc1400
souldie1474
emolument1480
soldery1502
stipend?1518
entertainment1535
task-money1593
consideration1607
gratuitya1637
wadage1679
addling1757
solde1852
treatment1852
screw1853
time1877
money1887
wage payment1923
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 103 He's getting good money, I reckon.
1920 E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon ii. i. 85 If that's the case, you can go to the devil... You'll get your money tomorrow when I get back from town.
1963 H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 45 Nobody really liked working for Malloy-Harrison, but the money was better than most places.
1987 Grimsby Evening Tel. 30 Nov. 14 Manager Shaughan Farrow is very sorry to see him go... ‘He's been offered more money.’
3. In plural (now chiefly in legal and quasi-legal parlance). Sums or quantities of money. Also (occasionally) with singular agreement: a sum or quantity of money (now rare, perhaps obsolete).The use of the plural for the singular was formerly attributed to Jewish speakers (see esp. quots. 1600, 1794, and 1819); cf. monish n.
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Macc. iii. 6 Tolde to hym the tresorie in Jerusalem for to be ful with moneys [L. pecuniis] vnnoumbreable.
1593 Acct. Bk. W. Morton f. 69 Reseuet..iii scor ane stane of tolone ane pound les, of moneyes is sum Ic honderis xxxiiii lib. 4s.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 115 You come to me, and you say, Shylocke, we would haue moneyes . View more context for this quotation
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 246 No Man will Lend his Moneyes farre off, nor put them into Vnknown Hands.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 140 [He] furnished him with great moneys, and other necessaries.
1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VIII. 220 To make him a present of the monies arising from that sale.
1794 R. Cumberland Jew ii. ii. 24 Why truly, monies is a good thing.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. x*. 208 ‘O,’ said the Jew, ‘you are come to pay monies... And from whom dost thou bring it?’
1822 Ld. Byron Werner ii. ii But to steal The moneys of a slumbering man!
1865 Morning Star 3 Feb. 3/5 A young woman, was charged..with stealing from the person of Robert Tharston,..7s. 6d., his moneys.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xxix. 22 Is not all his act To swallow monies, empty purses heap on heap?
1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. New Test. 132 Schmirdel objects that it would have been quite irrational to convey monies from South Galatia to Jerusalem by way of Macedonia.
1959 Times Rev. Industry Mar. 4/3 There is an ambivalence in the claims on promotional moneys, for the furtherance of distribution on the one hand and for the extension of advertising on the other.
1990 J. McGahern Amongst Women 55 He..started to tot up all the monies he presently held against the expenses he had.
4. A particular coin; a coinage (now rare). Also (more fully money of account): a denomination or unit of value used in records and for accounting purposes, sometimes representing a particular (current or obsolete) coin or other means of payment.
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society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > money of account
money of accounta1475
bank moneya1610
banco1638
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > a particular coinage
moneya1475
mahmudi1612
shilling1699
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 17614 Thys hand in frenshe..Ys callyd ‘Poitevyneresse’ ffor yt forgeth..A monye callyd Poytevyn.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. xiv. 165 The monoyes were establisshed first; for as moche as they had not of alle thinges necessarye to gydre.
1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method f. 69 I made an orifice with the Trepan, to the greatnes of a siluer mony called a Roiall.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 285 Now I will set downe the divers moneys of Germany with the severall values of them.
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1927 in Wks. (1640) III Custome is the most certaine Mistresse of Language, as the publicke stampe makes the current money.
a1641 T. Mun England's Treasure (1664) 4 He ought to know the Measures, Weights, and Monies of all forraign Countries.
1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 169 Francis Allen a poor Goldsmith... In honour of whom Clipped moneys are now called (Allens).
1695 J. Locke Further Considerations conc. Raising Value of Money 20 I have spoke of Silver Coin alone, because that makes the Money of Account.
1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour II. 104 At Cologne, the most remarkable money is the Rixdollar.
1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 328/1 Constantine I. introduced the milliarensis, worth somewhere about a shilling of our money.
1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 322/1 The denominations..of the different moneys current among the chief nations of antiquity.
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. App. o. 433 From the coinage we now proceed to monies of account.
1885 Athenæum 30 May 690/1 The reasons for these changes in coinage, the intentions of those who issued moneys..are often almost unknown.
1936 Encycl. Islam III. 1162/3 The modern Persian riyāl is a money of account: originally (1930) 20 riyāls = £1 stg. but by the system finally adopted in 1933, 100 dinārs = 1 riyāl = 1 pahlavi = £1 stg.
1997 J. Williams Money iv. 105 Monetary standards were expressed in terms of the toman, derived from the Mongol word meaning 10,000, which was a money of account originally indicating 10,000 dinars.
5. One of the four suits used in some packs of tarot cards, bearing a representation of one or more coins, and corresponding to the suit of pentacles in others (and diamonds in packs of ordinary playing cards). Also called coins.The suit is also found in packs of playing cards traditionally used in Italy, Spain, and Spanish-speaking countries.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > suit > specific suit or card of
clubs1563
hearts1583
money1593
diamond1594
spade1598
spade1745
swords1816
coins1844
batons1848
puppyfoot1907
1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries 49 The inuenter of the Italian Cardes..put the Deniers or monyes, and the Bastons or clubs in combate togither.
1848 W. A. Chatto Facts Hist. Playing Cards iv. 191 The earliest writers who mention Tarocchi as a kind of cards, always speak of them as consisting of four suits,—Swords, Cups, Batons, and Money.
1912 M. K. van Rensselaer Prophetical, Educ. & Playing Cards i. 54 A gazelle under a palm tree is placed on the knave of Money.
1966 S. Mann Collecting Playing Cards i. i. 45 The ace of money..shows a single-headed, crowned eagle... The king of money holds an axe.
1989 Encycl. Brit. XI. 565/2 The Lesser Arcana [in Tarot] comprises four suits of 14 cards each: Bastoni (Batons or Clubs)..; Coppes (cups, later hearts)..; Spade (swords)..; and Denari (money, later diamonds), symbolizing business undertakings, journeys, and messages.
6. U.S. colloquial (chiefly in African-American usage). A friend. Usually as a form of address, esp. to a male friend. Also more fully money dog, money grip.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend
friendOE
wineOE
fellowa1225
friendmana1250
lovera1275
amic1330
gossipc1390
mikea1400
ally1406
amykec1450
favourer1483
favourite1590
palc1770
butty1791
amigo1813
amico1820
compadre1834
pally1863
tillicum1869
nigger1884
buddy1895
paxc1900
mutual1901
righto1908
segotia1917
bud1924
palsy1930
palsy-walsy1932
buddy-buddy1943
winger1943
mucker1947
main man1956
goombah1968
gabba1970
money1982
1982 in ‘Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five’ Message (MS transcript of song) Yo, whassup, money?
1989 ‘Biz Markie’ Biz never Sleeps (song) in www.ohhla.com (O.E.D. Archive) So I hurried out and left, she said, ‘Please stay’ I said, ‘Sorry money grip, I don't go that way’.
1994 G. Smitherman Black Talk 162 Money, a form of address for any male, as in ‘Yo, Money! Sup?’
1995 L. Slavsky et al. A 2 Z 69/1 Money, money dog, money grip, friend: Yo, money dog, let's break out!
2000 P. Beatty Tuff i. 13 Naw, money, I'm serious.

Phrases

P1. With prepositions.
a. Phrases with for money, for——money, etc.
(a) for money: in return or exchange for money.value for money: see value n. Phrases 8.
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?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 246 Þei wer out of þe tour delyuerd for mone.
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 241 (MED) Prelatis..fauouren hem in synne for moneye.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xvi. sig. f.i There was habundaunce Of all maner pleasures, to be had for monye.
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (1680) 99 This Art of Memory is a sport at which men may play for money.
1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 181 It is certain the Pamphlet is..utterly sunk, and a Copy not to be had for Money.
1788 A. Seward Lett. (1811) II. 6 Reviewers may be venal without directly marting out their decisions for money.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vii. 301 Slaughter oxen or cows, and milch cows, are not to be had for money.
1979 J. Cooper Class (1980) ii. 55 A lot of confusion is caused by the word ‘nanny’. To the upper and middle classes it means someone who looks after children for money.
2000 Sunday Times 23 July i. 25/6 Veterans who were willing to betray former comrades for money.
(b) colloquial. for my money: —— (is the best) in my opinion or judgement; ——is my choice or favourite, ——is what I would like.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > [phrase] > expression of approval
for my money1548
more like it1836
the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choice [phrase] > by preference > is my choice
for my money1548
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. D.viv Amonge al the packe of them that haue cure, the Deuil shal go for my money.
1566 E. H. tr. Erasmus One Dialogue sig. B2v This behauiour doth well beseme Frenchmen peraduenture, how be it the fashions of Duche lande shall go for my monye when all is done.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 59 Well a horne for my mony when alls done. View more context for this quotation
1616 W. Haughton (title) English-men for my money.
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all v. 62 They may talk what they will of Oxford for an University, but Cambridge for my Money.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical 43 Let what will happen on't, give me for my Money the Female Sollicitor.
1767 I. Bickerstaff Love in City ii. vii Ay Colonel, it's well enough for a mouthful of air of a Sunday—but London for my money—I see nothing in Europe like it.
1825 H. J. Finn Montgomery i. i 'Pon my conscience then its you that's the lad for my money.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy x You're right..Murphy is the very man for our money.
1899 S. W. Mitchell Autobiogr. Quack 47 At once it occurred to me that ‘Lach.’ was the medicine for my money.
1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase xi. 138 Peter's the man for my money. He won't see a hardworking man lose a job for want of a good news story.
1954 J. Symons Narrowing Circle xiv. 59 For my money, Marian was responsible..for the trouble we'd had.
1988 High Life (Brit. Airways) Apr. 12 The historic stockyards have been turned into a tourist draw which, for my money, is far more appealing than Southfork.
(c) for love or money: see love n.1 Phrases 1d.
(d) to take eggs for money: see egg n. 4.
(e) to have a run for one's money: see run n.2 Phrases 9.
(f) for the money: at the price paid. Cf. at the money at Phrases 1b(a).
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1895 Argosy Sept. 587/2 It is, beyond all doubt, the best magazine for the money..in the United States.
1924 D. H. Lawrence in M. Magnus Mem. Foreign Legion Introd. 12 Oh no, not at all bad for the money.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues vii. 93 To us a muggle wasn't any more dangerous or habit-forming than..the five-cent Coke and the ice-cream cone, only it gave you more kicks for the money.
1998 What Hi–Fi? May 161/5 (list) Classic speakers but some more recent wonder-boxes offer more fulfilment for the money.
(g) to be (only) in it for the money: to be doing something for personal gain alone.
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1967 F. Zappa (title of record) We're only in it for the money.
1975 Forbes (Nexis) 15 Nov. 39 Some companies are in it for the money, but only some.
1986 Times 7 Feb. 11/8 She discovers that Doyle's ideals are not what they seem: he is in it for the money.
1999 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 11 Sept. The post-war hard men..all scraped modest livings through mountaineering but they weren't in it for the money.
b. Phrases with at (also in, on) the money, etc.
(a) at the money: at the price; = for the money at Phrases 1a(f). Now rare.
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1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield 602 Sometimes, we go at half-price to the pit of the theatre—the very smell of which is cheap..at the money.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. iii. 31 A good education is cheap at the money.
1882 Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 3/6 Khamseen, who cost 570 guineas at Mr. Vyner's sale, is reckoned a bargain..at the money.
1902 T. W. H. Crosland To Bookseller in Outlook Odes 68 He..told me that I could not expect Kelmscott Press and tree-calf At the money.
(b) in the money: finishing among the winners in a competitive event, esp. a horse race (cf. sense 2e); (more generally) (in the position of) possessing adequate or substantial money or wealth; wealthy, successful.
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1902 ‘D. Dix’ Fables of Elite 48 It is True that when the Spurt is over I am generally in the Money.
1926 L. Hughes Let. 20 Jan. in L. Hughes & C. Van Vechten Remember me to Harlem (2001) 36 Her only comment on the art of the Blues was that they had put her ‘in de money’.
1928 Morning Post 20 Oct. 6/1 One of them is to-day a full champion, the other three all winners, and ‘in the money’, as the fanciers say, whenever shown.
1946 L. Bromfield World we live In 325 Being in the money at the moment, I said that of course I'd lend her any reasonable amount.
1969 T. Parker Twisting Lane 200 She said we could stay there rent free until I was in the money again.
1993 Business Week 25 Oct. 8/1 Now that Ivan Boesky is back in the money, what's he doing with it? Studying foreign languages.
(c) colloquial (chiefly North American). on the money: accurately, precisely; in just the right place, time, or manner. Usually with intensifying adverb, as right on the money, dead on the money.
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a1944 B. Stiles Serenade to Big Bird (1947) v. 36 I checked the oil pressure and tuned the RPM on the money.
1962 New Yorker 10 Nov. 145 You've got to be right on the money when you set it [sc. an aeroplane] down.
1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 4 Nov. 28 Peter Klappert's article ‘Let Them Eat Wonderbread’ on a political double talk from a poet's vantage point was right on the money.
1991 Spy (N.Y.) Mar. 20/2 Paul Rudnick's ‘Presumed Innocence’..was yet another dead-on-the-money SPY article.
1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 23 Dec. a1/5 Computer forecast models..have been consistently right on the money for this slow-moving storm.
P2. In other phrases.
a.
(a) to make money: to acquire or earn money. Also: to get money by the sale of; to make a profit (from, out of).to be made of money: see make v.1 5c.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make profit by
to make money1457
to make a (good, etc.) penny of, by, from1464
to make chevisance of1535
to make a (also one's) hand(s)1538
to make a good thing of (also out of)1800
1457 W. Worcester in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 172 He..resseyvyth but chaffre and waare for hys cornys and wollys, &c. and then most abyde a long day to make money.
c1470 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 108 (MED) I wull make money off my oxyn to kepe with my promys.
1546 O. Johnson Let. 2 July in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 175 Besids the monney that I shal make of the said wares.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 45 Then may the husband afterwardes sell his wife for a slave, and make money of her for the dowrie he gaue her.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) To make money of, vendre.
1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. xiii. 170 I have nothing to give you, for I have no mony, being now going to Market with this Corn to make money of it.
a1730 Gideon Guthrie (1900) 10 Alexander suggested to his father that if he would allow him he could make money by his skill in musick.
1798 M. Wollstonecraft Wrongs of Woman I. v. 126 He had been a keeper at a house of the same description, and conceived that he could make money much more readily in his old occupation.
1828 W. M'Dowall Poems 25 When Buonaparte in splendour shone, 'Twas then I made the money.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss II. v. ii. 225 He took the liberty of asking if Mr Tom had ever thought of making money by trading a bit on his own account.
1901 Spectator 20 July 82/1 The War Office ought not to make money out of, any more than they should subsidise, the rifle clubs.
1975 Maclean's Feb. 14/1 Some agents make money from ‘finder's fees’.
1995 Atlantic Monthly June 6/2 He is a poet, a memoirist, and a publisher of books that not only receive critical acclaim but also make money.
(b) everybody's (also every man's, occasionally one's) money: (a) what everybody prefers (or can afford) to buy (now archaic); (b) (chiefly in negative context) what everybody would find worth its price, that which is to everybody's liking (now rare).
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choice [phrase] > by preference > what everyone would choose
everybody's (also every man's, occasionally one's) money1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xii. i. 381 The ointment of Saffron, confected at Soli in Cilicia, imported for a good while and caried the praise alone: but soone after, that of Rhodes was every mans money.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 208 When a Mans Stocke is come to that, that he can expect the Prime of Markets, and ouercome those Bargaines, which for their greatnesse are few Mens Money.
1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 29 The whole work..consists of two great volumes, and the price consequently correspondent, not every mans money, and in fewer hands therefore.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 482. ¶1 Such a Discourse is of general Use, and every married Man's Money.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 91/1 I sell dry fruit, sir, in February and March, because I must be doing something, and green fruit's not my money then.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 139/1 Mignonette's everybody's money. Dahlias didn't go off so well.
1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 196 You ain't everybody's money, vous ne pouvez pas plaire à tout le monde.
1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. c10 Dec. in Coll. Ess. (1968) I. 128 As to the actual writing in Ulysses, it isn't everybody's money, but personally I think it is superb in places.
(c) to throw (one's) money about and variants: to spend money extravagantly or wastefully; to have money to throw about: to be very rich; to be in a position to spend extravagantly; to throw good money after bad and variants: to incur a further loss in trying to make good a previous one; to throw money at: to attempt to solve (a problem, etc.) by reckless expenditure rather than by a more efficient or prudent approach.
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1662 G. Torriano 2nd Alphabet Proverbial Phrases 197/1 The English say, To send good Mony after bad, to lose the Substance, for the Shaddow.
1690 W. Fitzhugh Let. 8 Aug. in R. B. Davis William Fitzhugh & his Chesapeake World (1963) 294 More money would be spent on prosecuting than he would be able to answer, & consequently good money thrown after bad.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse v. 102 I change my Husband again, I shan't have so much Money to throw about.
1754 S. Fielding Cry III. iv. viii. 42 I could not believe that he was so far beside his senses, as to throw away money on superfluities.
1792 J. Belknap Foresters xii 149 Why should I keep on throwing away good money after bad; I am damnably in debt now.
1823 H. Luttrell Crockford-House ii. 93 Mighty Man of cards and dice, Take a real friend's advice... Don't, or I shall think you mad, Throw good money after bad.
1840 F. M. Trollope Michael Armstrong III. i. 5 People as have money to throw about..are not to be put off with a short word.
1862 Continental Monthly Nov. 552 His father before him hadn't always this same ridiculous way of throwing the money he earned about like dust.
1870 Appletons' Jrnl. 5 Mar. 262 He is very liberal and hospitable, and ready to throw his money about in bucketfuls.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker i. 16 Take a pride to keep your books posted, and never throw good money after bad.
?1904 H. V. Esmond Billy's little Love Affair ii. 52 I'll wait. No good throwing good money after a bad husband, is it?
1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) ix. 135 If people want to throw their money about... Five guineas is more than I can save in a year.
1951 ‘N. Shute’ Round Bend i. 3 I hadn't got any money to chuck around.
1972 N.Y. Times 15 Dec. 46/4 President Nixon is employing a quite misleading phrase when he states that ‘throwing money at social problems does not solve them’.
1992 Time 6 Jan. 31/1 ‘No, we don't throw money around like the networks’ says Turner about CNN's relatively tightfisted operation.
1993 Business Central Europe June 37/2 Of all the suggested cures, privatisation is the one most likely to make management accountable and stop it throwing good money after bad.
1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Nov. 60/1 The group's very existence was based on the belief that AIDS could be cured quickly if only enough money and effort were thrown at it.
(d) money burns (a hole) (in) one's pocket: see burn v.1 3c.
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money out of pocket adj. and n. (a) adj. having incurred expenses without reimbursement (now more usually simply out of pocket); (b) n. expenses paid for personally in the course of executing a commission, etc.
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1705 Boston News-let. 2 Apr. 2/2 The Undertaker is money out of Pocket, & has not sufficient to defray the necessary Charge.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) x. 99 ‘Expensive affair,’ said Mr. Jingle. ‘Money out of pocket—posting, nine pounds; licence, three.’
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. liv. 108 A man with my family can't allow himself to be money out of pocket in that way.
1878 H. Bessemer Let. in Times 1 Nov. 6/3 I was reminded when pressing for mere money out of pocket, that I had done all the work voluntarily and of my own accord.
1894 N.E.D. at Expense The charges, costs, items of outlay, incurred by a person in the execution of any commission; ‘money out of pocket’.
1976 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 36 134 Annuities to widowed mothers, dowries for sisters, a year's income for brothers,..all represented money out of pocket.
2000 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Electronic ed.) 13 May a1 Once the consumer pays a set amount of money out of pocket..a traditional insurance plan kicks in and picks up additional costs.
(f) to turn money away and variants: to turn down a chance of making or acquiring money.In later use frequently as a result of being unable to meet demand.
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1722 tr. M. de Cervantes Little Gypsy in Select Coll. Novels V. 19 Take Bribes, Master Judge, take Bribes, never be squeamish,..nor turn Money away when it is offer'd.
1788 Harris's List Covent-Garden Ladies 105 If any of our readers wishes to try a tune with her, he must pay for it; but she is not at all exorbitant in her demands, seldom wishing to turn money away.
1840 M. Graham Florence Graham iv. 38 It is but seldom I trow we have so much to do, that we need turn money away, because we don't like the looks of the customers.
1906 Smart Set Aug. 146/2 ‘There's not an order in the house,’ said the manager. ‘We've turned money away!’
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. iii. 329 Turning money away, my dear; capacity to the roof, ol' man.
2007 Wall St. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 28 June The world continues to be awash in ‘liquidity’, the buzz word for lots of money at low prices. Private equity firms have to turn money away.
(g) your money or your life: a formula attributed to highwaymen, etc., used as a threat to force a person to hand over money. Now historical or allusively.
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1798 A. Plumptre tr. A. von Kotzebue Natural Son iii. ii. 50 (The Baron moves onward, Frederick rushes wildly with his drawn sword upon the Baron and collars him.) Your money or your life!
1838 D. Jerrold Men of Char. (1851) 320 The highway laconism of ‘your money or your life!’
1841 F. A. Burney Jrnl. 23 Feb. (1926) 321 Mr. Dixon attempted expostulation, upon which the Highwayman drew out a Pistol,..exclaiming, with an oath, ‘Your money or your life!’
1864 J. Payn Lost Sir Massingberd II. xiii. 212 A pistol, was protruded into the carriage. ‘Your money or your life!..,’ said a rough voice.
1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 339/2 Wingate suggests as an epitome of Mahdīism the sentence ‘Your money or your life.’
1992 M. Jefferson Criminal Law (BNC) 318 Getting property by threatening immediate force (e.g., ‘your money or your life’) may be both blackmail and robbery.
(h) the best that money can buy and variants: the very best available.
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1837 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 510 The present tale rebukes the folly of sacrificing, to the acquisition of money, the enjoyment of all the best things that money can buy.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vi. 55 He went to Bond Street, and bought the best hat and spencer that money could buy.
1897 ‘M. Twain’ Following Equator xi. 129 He will..feed you and slake you and smoke you with the best that money can buy.
1955 Times 4 June 7/4 There are women who would not exchange a familiar pram with a quirk in its steering for the best new one that money could buy.
1993 Tatler July 84/1 My son can do anything he wants. I'll give him the best education money can buy.
(i) there is money in——: money (or profit) can be made out of——.Cf. there's gold in them there (frequently thar) hills at there adv. 2c(c).
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1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iv. xxxiv. 359 Never mind your being poorish as yet; there's money in your head-piece as there's money i' the sown field, but it must ha' time.
1878 P. Merritt & G. Conquest Velvet & Rags 6 Ah! I shall leave this life and play for higher game—espouse the Carlist cause; there's money in it.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Mar. 14/1 There is undoubtedly money in guns.
1927 F. F. Van de Water Family Flivvers to Frisco iii. 52 There is money in well-run tourist parks.
1965 E. Gundrey Foot in Door xxxiii. 189 There's money in them thar pills—but very little else.
1985 J. Winterson Oranges are not Only Fruit 14 There was no money in vermin any more.
†(j) colloquial. to be good (bad, etc.) money: to be a good (bad, etc.) investment; to be financially rewarding. Obsolete. rare.
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1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 103/2 I reckon Astley's is the worst money for any man.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 130/1 Richardson's used..to be more money, but now it's as bad as the rest of 'em.
(k) to put one's money on: see put v. Phrases 7.
(l) to have money to burn: see burn v.1 8d.
(m) Originally North American. to put (also get) one's money where one's mouth is: to produce, bet, or pay out money to support one's statements or opinions; to do something that demonstrates one's assertion.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > furnish evidence [phrase]
seea1393
to have (something, nothing, etc.) to say for oneself1533
to put (also get) one's money where one's mouth is1913
1913 N.-Y. Tribune 24 Aug. 4/6 The Texas Senator..challenged him to produce his figures... ‘Put your money where your mouth is,’ retorted Senator Sheppard.
1921 Jonesboro (Arkansas) Daily Tribune 26 Apr. 2 (advt.) Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!.. Here's a chance for you to do something. Forty Dollars will Take One Pupil Through High School Next Year.
1942 Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury July 87 ‘Put your money where your mouth is!’ he challenged.
1951 Amer. Speech 26 99/1 Get your money where your mouth is, a phrase [in poker] which means, ‘put up or shut up’.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 7/3 Eventually it got to the point when he suggested that maybe I was the guy who should take it on. Sort of put your money where your mouth is.
1994 R. Gunesekera Reef (1998) 150 ‘Banker, banker, let's have the chips.’ ‘Money first. Put your money where your mouth is.’
(n) colloquial (perhaps originally Military). money for jam (also for old rope, etc.): a profitable return for little or no trouble; a very easy job; a person or thing easy to profit from, beat, etc.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > money acquired easily
easy money1896
money for jam (also for old rope, etc.)1919
pennies from heaven1936
earner1970
1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 727/2 The great use of jam in the Army..originated a number of phrases, such as ‘money for jam’ (money for nothing).
1927 T. E. Lawrence Let. 22 Sept. (1938) 540 Recently I made nearly ten pounds out of reviewing eleven books. Money for jam, as the airman says.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xiii. 134 He would spin her a fanny about the marriage laws, tie the poor kid up. It ought to be money for old rope.
1984 D. Lessing Diaries of Dane Somers i. 182 ‘And you are of course going to be properly paid for it?’ ‘Adequately. Money for jam.’
1999 New Yorker 31 May 89/1 You would think that being paid fifteen pounds an hour to read Joseph Conrad's ‘Victory’ to a blind Italian boy is, well, money for old rope.
(o) Chiefly U.S. colloquial. (to be) money in the bank: (to be) a guaranteed success, a reliable good performer, esp. in sport or the entertainment industry.
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1939 Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder 3 Jan. 11/2 Money in the bank, dearie, money in the bank. That's what diamonds are.
1948 P. Martin Hollywood without Make-up 59 Whatever a producer has to pay, he is lucky if he can lure Lillian Hellman, Charley MacArthur or Robert E. Sherwood out from New York. They are all money in the bank.
1990 D. DiMaggio & B. Gilbert Real Grass, Real Heroes xiii. 175 In 1941 Mickey Owen was money in the bank behind the plate as the Dodgers took the field to try to square up the Series.
1999 Sports Illustr. (Electronic ed.) 4 Oct. Since rejoining the fin de siecle Fins, Martin has been money in the bank, averaging a team-high 22.2 yards per catch.
b. Stock Market. at the money: (designating a call or put option) with a striking price equal to the price of the underlying security. in (also out of) the money: (designating a call option) with a striking price below or above (respectively) the price of the underlying security; also of a put option, with the meanings reversed.
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1979 C. E. Cleeton Strategies for Options Trader i. 3 When the striking price of a call option is less than the price of the underlying stock, the premium is said to be in the money... When the stock price is below the striking price, the call option is said to be out of the money... When the stock price equals the striking price, the option is said to be at the money. Similar terms are applied to put options, the price relations being the reverse.
1988 Nymex Energy Options 11 NYMEX lists at least seven strike prices at..$1 intervals with the middle strike price—the at-the-money strike price—equal to or near the previous day's closing futures price.
1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) 29 Apr. 13/5 Although the longer-dated, deeper-in-the-money option owned collateralizes the one sold short, this is a risk arbitrage because the 1997 option can't be exercised early to satisfy the obligation if the May put is in the money at expiration.
P3. Proverbs.
a. (the love, covetousness, desire, etc., of) money is the root of all evil [in allusion to 1 Timothy 6:10; compare quot. 1611] .
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c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 555 Loue to money..is worthi to be forborn..as Poul seith, it is ‘the roote of al yuel’.
1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Catech. & Other Pieces (1844) 122 The covetousness of money is the root of all evil.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Tim. vi. 10 The loue of money is the root of all euill. View more context for this quotation
1777 C. Tufts Let. 18 Sept. in L. H. Butterfield et al. Adams Family Corr. (1963) II. 345 We may truly assent to what indeed many have been loth to believe Viz. That Money is the Root of all Evil.
1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. xii. 253 ‘But, doctor, you'll take the money.’..‘Quite impossible,’..said the doctor,..valiantly rejecting the root of all evil.
1978 W. L. DeAndrea Killed in Ratings ii. 18 They've got these funny little sayings... Here's one. ‘Money is the root of all evil..but that's one evil I'm rooting for.’
b. money makes (also †gets, etc.) money.
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1572 T. Wilson Disc. Vsurye 54v Mony getteth money, and..I may in right demaund for myne owne beehoofe the encrease that commethe of it.
1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 57 'Tis a vain thing to say, Money begets not Money; for that no doubt it does.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. ix. 114 Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. View more context for this quotation
1861 ‘F. G. Trafford’ City & Suburb xiv Money makes money, it is said.
1937 S. Scott Crazy Murder Show i. 16 They say money makes money. So it is with work.
1988 C. H. Sawyer J. Alfred Prufrock Murders v. 66 Maybe she made some clever investments? But no, she would have have had to have money to begin with—it takes money to make money, my husband always said.
c. money makes the mare (also †horse) to go and variants. Also money makes the world (also wheels) go round (also around).
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > in possession of money [phrase] > possession of money as incentive
money makes the mare (also horse) to go1573
a1500 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 262 (MED) Ther joly palfreys Yt [sc. money] makyght to lepe and praunce.]
1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Hours Recreat. (1576) 213 Money makes the horsse to goe.
1659 J. Howell Prov. Eng. Toung 6/2 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) Money makes the grey Mare to go.
1698 Money Masters All Things 3 [Money] Makes the old Wife trot, and makes the Mare to go.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxxii. 187 The House of Commons..has the giving of money: And Money makes the mare to go.
1792 J. Wolcot More Money iv 'Tis money makes the old mare trot.
c1858 S. S. Steele Crock of Gold ii. ii, in America's Lost Plays (1941) XIV. 196 Acton A. Yes, Peter, money!.. The old saying's true—‘Money makes the mare go.’
1929 E. Hope Alice in Delighted States xxvi. 287 Money..makes the world go 'round.
1966 E. S. Gardner Case of Worried Waitress iii. 27 It takes money to make the wheels go around.
1978 Countryman Spring 193 Never cock your snoop at money, my lass, 'cos it's money that makes the mare to go.
1994 Chat 5 Feb. 34/1 Money makes the world go round—but we all know that it's never there when you need it.
d. a fool and his money are soon parted.
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1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 8v A foole & his money, be soone at debate: which after with sorow, repents him to late.]
1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. xv. 1294 If they pay a penie or two pence more for the reddinesse of them..let them looke to that, a foole and his money is soone parted.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xxxix. 43 A foole and his money is soon parted.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 174 She tossed her nose in disdain, saying, she supposed her brother had taken him into favour..: that a fool and his money were soon parted.
1898 G. B. Shaw Arms & Man II. iii. 57 A twenty leva bill! Sergius gave me that, out of pure swagger. A fool and his money are soon parted.
1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise xi. 205 Copper-plate maxims: ‘A fool and his money are soon parted,’ ‘Waste not, Want not.’
1983 M. Grimes Anodyne Necklace ii. 13 Great wads of money had exchanged hands, passing from those of the fools who would be parted from it to the estate agents always ready to grab it.
e. money is the sinews (also nerve or nerves) of war and variants [compare Cicero Philippicae 5. 5 ‘nervos belli, pecuniam infinitam’] . Now rare.
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c1590 G. Harvey Marginalia (1913) 101 Moony, and sowldiours ar ye sinews, and marrow of warr: [ye] ueri strength of strength.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ddd1v But that opinion I may condemne with like reson as Macchiauell doth that other: that monies were the sinews of the warres. View more context for this quotation
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 86 Not that he wanted (the nerves of war) mony.
1660 T. M. Walker's Hist. Independency IV. 65 The Army could not subsist without money (which is the Nerve of War).
1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 109 Money, which is the Nerve and Sinew of War.
1999 Re: Bible Fight in Saskatchewan in can.motss (Usenet newsgroup) 18 July It has not dawned on too many people that money is the sinews of war.
f. time is money: see time n., int., and conj. Phrases 6h.
g. money is power.
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1741 N. Ames Almanack for 1741 [4] Laws bear Name, but Money has the Power.]
1789 F. Ames Let. 16 May in Wks. (1854) I. 39 That money is power, a permanent revenue is permanent power, and the credit which it would give was a safeguard to the government.
1818 M. Edgeworth Let. 13 Oct. (1971) 115 Now he had money ‘and money is power’.
1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. v. 113 Money is power—power for bread and power for tinsel.
1930 G. B. Means Strange Death of President Harding iv. 72 One can do nothing—be nothing, without money, not even in the White House. Money is power.
1989 J. Mattinson & C. Clulow Marriage Inside Out (BNC) 112 Money is power, and for this reason employment continues to call the tune.
h. you pays your money and you takes your choice: the choice is entirely your own responsibility.The nonstandard grammar of pays and takes in the usual form of this saying is perhaps in imitation of the speech of showmen, stallholders, etc., but standard grammar is also found.
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1845 C. Lever Let. in L. Stevenson Dr. Quicksilver (1939) ix. 149 You have paid your money, and you may take your choice.]
1846 Punch 3 Jan. 17 (caption) ‘Which is the Prime Minister?’.. ‘You pays your money, and you takes your choice.’
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxviii. 249 Here's your two sets o'heirs to old Peter Wilks—and you pays your money and you takes your choice!
1892 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 87 You pay your money and, more or less, you take your choice.
1904 V. S. Lean Collectanea IV. 205 You pays your money and you takes your choice. You pays your money and what you sees is A cow or a donkey just as you pleases.
1965 Times 14 July 8/4 In the Government today were known supporters of C.N.D. Why? Because the Prime Minister put them there. Why? Because he shared their views? Because it was expedient to do so? Because he was practising some duplicity? Why? ‘You pays your money and you takes your choice.’
1984 ‘C. Aird’ Harm's Way xvi ‘Penny plain or twopence coloured?’ he said. ‘You pays your money and you takes your choice.’
1997 Face June 134/2 You pays your money, takes your choice, and you select your brand.
i. money isn't everything.
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1851 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin in National Era 17 July 113/2 Trade aint everything, and money aint everything.
1927 E. O'Neill Marco Millions i. iii. 44 Money isn't everything, not always.
1959 P. H. Johnson Unspeakable Skipton (1961) 114 Well, he's not marrying the Greek. Emrys put a stop to that, said money wasn't everything.
1975 J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo xv. 316 If one owns property one can always have a little money follow one around. But we all know that money isn't everything.
1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Nov. 29/2 Money isn't everything. There's compost, ice cream and beer, available free to employees at, respectively, Rodale Press,..Ben & Jerry's and the Miller Brewing Company.
j. money talks: money has greater significance than mere words; wealth brings with it power and influence.
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1681 A. Behn 2nd Pt. Rover iii. 43 Money speaks sense in a Language all Nations understand.]
1880 G. H. Jessop & J. B. Polk Gentleman from Nevada i. 5 I ain't going to lay down no such hand as this—here money talks—one hundred dollars, I've the best hand at the table.
1905 ‘O. Henry’ in N.Y. World Mag. 12 Nov. 8/1 Money talks. But you may think that the conversation of a little old ten-dollar bill in New York would be nothing more than a whisper.
1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 277 Yeah, he's on the Market... You know the sort of stuff. Money talks and so on.
1997 Earth Matters Winter 17/1 Money talks. If a developer asks an architect to build the cheapest, largest, quickest, it's quite difficult for them to say ‘I won't touch this’.

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a. General attributive.
money bond n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. viii. 154 Rich if Court-titles and Money-bonds can enrich him.
1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1372/1 Post-obit, a money bond conditioned for payment at or after the death of some person other than the giver of the bond.
1992 Financial Times 22 Feb. 3/8 Bonds to be offered in exchange for existing loans include new money bonds with a maturity of 17 years.
money controversy n.
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1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xlii. 427 If there were any money controuersies to be decided.
1874 J. E. P. Doyle Plymouth Church & its Pastor 551 I had the sole management of the money controversy between Tilton and Bowen.
1969 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 7 39/1 The inside-outside money controversy.
2000 Boston Globe (Nexis) 13 Feb. (Sports section) d4 The money controversy had exploded, Crenshaw ripped into four particular players, and the event seemed headed for disaster.
money-debt n.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt
yielding1340
debtc1380
due1439
debitc1450
devoirs1503
debitory1575
debenture1609
money-debt1627
balance (due)1720
outstandings1755
liability1842
engagement1849
live horse1859
payables1896
1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving ii. iii. 30 She does not arrest me for money debt.
1711 M. Henry Forgiveness of Sin in Wks. (1853) II. 319/2 Our Saviour in his parables alludes to money-debts.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner xx. 348 There's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by.
1890 Sir G. F. Duckett Visit. Eng. Cluniac Found. 31 He found the house with a money-debt of 935. marks.
1919 P. G. Lewis Solution iii. 51 A money-debt can only be discharged with money. A money-debt constitutes a liability.
2007 W. O. Coleman Causes, Costs & Compensations Inflation vii. 138 Why is any lending or borrowing done in terms of money, when such money debt exposes the lender's wealth to inflation risk?
money drawer n.
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1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. Index 383 Two keys to their money-drawer.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. at Lob A till or money-drawer.
1880 W. Newton Serm. for Boys & Girls (1881) 372 She had lost the key of her money-drawer.
1967 A. Carter Magic Toyshop vii. 155 Notes spilled out of the money drawer.
money-fear n.
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1921 B. King Conquest of Fear vi. 216 Money-fear comes occasionally; but only as the memory of pain to a wound which you know to be healed.
1927 D. H. Lawrence Let. 18 Dec. (1962) II. 1027 They must first overthrow in themselves the money-fear and money-lust.
1936 B. Bigelow Knack of selling More III. ix. 137 The second fear-quenching thought for money fears is the assurance that the purchase will not cost anything in the long run.
2015 G. Smalley & E. Smalley Ready to Wed 219 Now that you've identified your money fears,..you can move from money fear to money freedom.
money fine n.
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a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy viii, in Remains (1670) 92 Subject to no other justice lie, Then (as for Dogs) a senceless Money fine.
1656 in E. B. O'Callaghan Laws & Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638–1674 (1868) 284 They shall not allow any Civil cases to remain open and undecided..but shall be bound to dispose thereof by judgment or settlement, the money fine inclusive.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. iii. 47 Such are the proportions of the wer-gild and the money-fines.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 289/2 A code of laws issued by him which..contains a list of money fines for various crimes.
1978 D. Frisby tr. G. Simmel Philos. of Money v. 355 The importance of money within the system of appreciation is measurable by the development of the money fine.
2009 E. Kim Calligrapher's Daughter 174 Daughter, I received your letter and the money fine.
money flow n.
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1927 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 42 93 The present large incomes..are not from..a permanent money-flow from newly accumulated sources of wealth.
1953 C. F. Hockett in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 64/1 Money-flow (at least in one direction) is income.
1992 P. Jones & J. Cullis Public Finance & Public Choice (BNC) 345 The tax of income that is not a money flow would be politically unpopular as it would have to be paid from the working partner's income.
† money god n. Obsolete
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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. sig. S6v Suffise it then, thou Money God (qd. hee) That all thine ydle offers I refuse.
1853 B. P. Shillaber Man in 'Bus in Rhymes with Reason & without 58 The money-god's altar had risen on high.
1873 M. A. Quinton (title) The money god; or, the Empire and the papacy.
1908 J. C. Van Dyke (title) The Money God: chapters of heresy and dissent concerning business methods.
money hunger n.
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1882 W. Carleton Farm Ballads (rev. ed.) 113 Eyes made by money-hunger keen.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker vii. 120 Far from the money-hunger of the West.
1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1047 (advt.) A young manhood of scheming and money-hunger in Chicago.
2000 San Francisco Examiner (Nexis) 22 Aug. b9 Money hunger is plaguing my generation.
money-lust n.
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1838 E. B. Browning Seraphim i, in Poet. Wks. (1897) 93 Have I the apple at my lips? The money-lust within?
1842 Ladies' Repository Feb. 63/2 A very money lust possesses his soul.
1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xiv. 61 The perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses.
1993 19th–Cent. Lit. 48 306 It is of course the money-lust that is made to carry the burden of evil.
† money-means n. Obsolete
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1612 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts sig. D4v A Knight..Intreates his Father..Some mony-means, to help him, he would make.
† money-miser n. Obsolete
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. F3 A wretched ending, of such money misers.
† money-mulct n. Obsolete
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1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Exod. xx. 17) 66 Violence offered to a woman..if shee were not quick [with childe], it was onely a monie-mulct.
money payment n.
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1799 Hull Advertiser 15 June 1/2 The house is..subject to a money payment in lieu of tithes.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. iii. 62 Time out of mind the services of the villains had been commutable for money payments.
1999 Pract. Family Hist. Oct. 7/1 By 1836, the government had decided that money payments should be substituted for all remaining payments in kind—the commutation of tithes.
money price n.
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1674 in H. W. Richardson York Deeds (Maine) (1888) III. f. 23 The sayd Davess & Penwill to pay ye sayd Bray Three pounds fiue shillings.., to bee payd as followeth, to say one quarter money price, the other three quarters in price Current, to say fish, provission, & Barbadoes goods, & Inglish goods.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. v. 56 Six shillings and eight-pence..in the time of Edward I. I consider as the same money price with a pound sterling in the present times. View more context for this quotation
1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law v. 157 The husband..pays a money-price to her relations for the tutelage which they surrender to him.
1994 Economist 24 Dec. 96/3 People do not..confuse changes in money prices with changes in real prices.
money sack n.
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1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 153 The Money-Sacke, best kept the Land from sack.
1793 C. Smith Old Manor House III. ix. 219 She prefers the nephew with his knap-sack to the uncle with his money-sack.
1899 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Dec. 36/2 Millions and millions of people were discussing the stranger and his money-sack.
1997 B. O'Connor Tell her you love Her 123 His yellow money sacks,..because he didn't notice Hussein now fisting out fist-loads of cash, deflated slowly.
money-safe n.
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1799 Hull Advertiser 6 Oct. 3/3 Charged..with having broken open..the money-safe within the said dwelling-house.
1871 Appletons' Jrnl. 5 Aug. 145 He held his candle within the empty money-safe.
1898 Cent. Mag. July 424/2 Midshipman W. B. Sinclair, Jr...was placed in charge of a boat containing the steamer's money safe.
1972 Amer. Q. 24 535 The nation, which once memorialized Colonel Shaw, now memorializes a money-safe which survived the Hiroshima blast.
money slave n.
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1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 116 He can't help being a slave, a wage-slave, A money-slave.
1999 Business Week 15 Feb. 6/2 Capitalism may make him a money slave, but it can be fun too.
money system n.
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1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 48 I insert here the Notes and Reply, as shewing the different views on which the adoption of our money system hung.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 109 Why don't we do something about the money system?
1991 D. Dabydeen Intended (1992) 181 Kurtz should have..paid for his sex instead of wanting it on the cheap with blacks who didn't know how much to charge because they didn't have a money system.
money-till n.
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1857 O. W. Wight Quinland I. ii. ii. 289 If the stars were extinguished, it would not disturb him, unless his money-till were upset.
1937 C. M. Arensberg Irish Countryman 175 His or her remittances would eventually reach his money-till.
money transaction n.
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1766 G. Colman & D. Garrick Clandestine Marriage ii. 33 If I can make it advantageous to him as a money-transaction,..he will certainly come into it.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xviii. 133 Looking at this as a simple money transaction.
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 87 In the end he had got mixed up in some shady affair, some money transaction.
2000 Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald (Nexis) 25 Aug. 1 Adams County investigator Glenn Kemp said authorities have found no money transactions and no records of cell-phone calls.
money valuation n.
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1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. vii. 445 The money valuation of the estimated produce of the land in cultivation.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. Prel. Rem. 5 He accepted these [goods] at a money valuation.
1992 P. Jones & J. Cullis Public Finance & Public Choice (BNC) Taxation of sales is also common, in the form of specific (so much per physical unit of measurement) or ad valorem (percentage of money valuation) taxes on goods and services.
money wages n.
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1817 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (ed. 5) I. i. ii. 31 An increased number of labourers receiving the same money-wages will necessarily, by their competition, increase the money-price of corn.
1955 Times 6 June 10/3 Many of the gains that labour has been getting through new contracts are not so much increases in money wages as in so-called ‘fringe’ benefits—such as larger pensions and welfare payments.
1992 A. Leijonhufvud in A. Vercelli & N. Dimitri Macroecon. ii. 22 The inelasticity of price expectations reduces the amplitude of fluctuations in money prices and money wages.
b. Objective.
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money borrower n.
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1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iii. 25 Though he was a money-borrower.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby lvi Ten thousand mean and paltry lies, told—not by the money-lender, oh no! but by the money-borrowers.
1948 G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) ii. 23 He has become a money-borrower as well as a money-lender.
1999 Time (Nexis) 27 Dec. 130 They can be constant money borrowers, black sheep, pathological liars, white-collar criminals or..murderous felons.
money-earner n.
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1902 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 12 189 The disparity between money earners and direct owners of industrial product was..lessened.
1997 Independent 29 July 3/8 A company which patents a test for a gene sequence—say, for a gene causing breast cancer—has a huge potential money-earner.
money-getter n.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > one who wants or acquires money
fisherman1526
money-getter1809
1809 L. Hunt in Examiner 10 Dec. 787/2 An unfeeling money-getter is a savage, who absolutely lives in society without imbibing any of its spirit.
1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home xlix. 297 These money-getters, though they are bewildered by the difference of some other man, are never abashed by it.
2000 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 2 Aug. b1 State Sen. Tom Leatherwood..was the top money-getter from outside donors, raising $49,000.
money-hoarder n.
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1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxiii. 16) 183 It may well be said of Money-hoarders, they have no Quick-silver, no currant money.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxix. 97 To the money-hoarder..the whole great universe above glitters with sterling coin.
2000 Sun (Edmonton) (Nexis) 6 Nov. 1 Federal political wannabes should look at the concerns of the poor before they look to gain votes from the greedy money-hoarders.
money-holder n.
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1788 G. Washington Let. 31 Aug. in Papers (1956) XIII. 556 I am much obliged by the information you give respecting the credit of different Nations among the Dutch Money-holders.
1870 W. R. Holloway Indianapolis xi. 103 The money holder had to take the opinion of a broker or banker for what he was worth.
1993 Jrnl. Money, Credit, & Banking 25 605 While moneyholders and lenders are made better off, borrowers are made worse off with high monetary uncertainty.
money loaner n.
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1860 G. W. Hawes Ohio State Gazetteer for 1860–61 601 Sowles D. W., Broker and Money Loaner, South side Scioto.
1903 W. E. Curtis True A. Lincoln 131 He advocated a law prohibiting money-loaners from charging exorbitant rates of interest.
1996 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 4 Feb. a4 Everybody seems to wind up at Eddy's. Carpenters, politicians, money loaners, hookers.
money-lover n.
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1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxii. 215 A noted whore-monger is to be chosen before a man who is a money-lover.
1832 A. Grant Let. 26 Jan. in Mem. & Corr. (1844) III. 214 He is no money-lover, and is kind-hearted.
1905 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 556 The timocratic man who seeks honour may easily degenerate to the mere money lover.
1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 77/2 Traditionally, Harrovians include the flashy, and money-lovers.
money-raiser n.
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1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 1/3 This remarkable man began his career as a money-raiser fifteen years ago with an £8,000 collection.
1955 W. Dean in H. Van Thal Fanfare for E. Newman v. 61 Don Giovanni in Trianon's version and Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor had to be put on as money-raisers.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 2 Nov. 4/3 He has, so far as we know, courted no string-pullers or money-raisers in the Republican establishment.
money-spender n.
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1720 E. Ward Delights of Bottle iv. 44 The Vint'ner must himself surrender To ev'ry crossgrain'd Money-spender.
1896 Overland Monthly Jan. 13 A retreat for the money-maker rather than for the money-spender or the ‘summer-girl’.
1920 Edinb. Rev. July 163 Meleager was always a money spender rather than a money maker.
1953 Amer. Q. 5 323 As a money-spender he displayed more generosity and fine taste than good judgment.
money-winner n.
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1864 Christian Recorder (Electronic text) 13 Feb. The next is the money winners.
1888 R. L. Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. Jan. 125 He sets to belaboring his brains after a story, for that is his readiest money-winner.
1992 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. viii. 7/6 The Ladies Professional Golf Association's leading money-winner.
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money-breeding n. and adj.
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1796 M. Robinson Angelina I. 71 The blustering,..money-breeding savage, her father.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. v. 206 Your concentrated Fox is seldom comparable to your concentrated Ass in money-breeding.
1921 E. B. England in tr. Plato Laws I. (Notes) 531 And we will have no great money-making out of base trade, or vile money-breeding—or money-feeding either.
2005 J. T. Noonan Church that can & cannot Change xviii. 129 If breeding money is a metaphor for action approved by God, one might infer that money-breeding is good.
money earning n. and adj.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > earning money
winningc1400
earning1567
money earning1872
1872 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 35 304 The number of telegrams given in the preceding table represent the money-earning telegrams.
1896 Argosy Mar. 519/2 Think of the money earning possibilities of women guides and chaperons on wheels.
1912 J. London Let. 7 Sept. (1966) 364 My long stuff is pretty good at money-earning.
1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) 29 Apr. 18/4 Annika Sorenstam of Sweden, who led both the U.S. and European LPGA money earnings list last season, shot a 69 and shared fifth place.
money getting adj. and n.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun]
winninga1300
purchasec1325
lucrec1380
chevisancea1400
framing1440
lucring1574
lucrifaction1606
lucration1658
money-making1785
realization1799
money getting1836
capital formation1889
a1595 T. Digges in T. Digges & D. Digges Foure Paradoxes (1604) iii. 77 Lawe was but a mony getting trade, and Physicke a dangerous tickle Arte.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 5 Mony-getting -men. View more context for this quotation
1748 J. Moncreiff Camillus 33 The mean, ignoble, and sometimes oppressive Arts of Money getting which have been exercised..in his Majesty's Fleet.
1757 A. G. Impetuous Lover 210 He wished his last letter had been burnt before he had sent it, to throw his son out of a money getting way.
1836 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (ed. 2) II. xxviii. 395 A life of money-getting is a life of care.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 182 Socrates makes a playful allusion to his money-getting habits.
1977 B. M. Boyle in S. Kostof Architect 316 They [sc. successful architects] are in reality fully as keen and of as large capacity in the business of money getting as any other constituency in American affairs.
2017 Sun (Nexis) 16 Dec. 16 You already know I'm a money-getting motherf*****.
money-grasping adj.
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1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Expostulatory Odes iii. 11 Perdition catch the money-grasping wretch.
1869 H. Greeley Recoll. Busy Life 522 The lazy, sensual, luxury-loving, money-grasping million enjoy nothing more keenly.
1940 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 11 472/1 Uncle Sam is represented in caricatures by Latin Americans and by Europeans as money-grasping, hard, defiant, and hypocritical.
2000 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 22 Oct. 15 The author's careerism..is rooted in his mercantile childhood milieu—a failed-businessman father, two aggressively money-grasping older brothers.
money-loving adj.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > money-loving
pecunious1509
philargyrous1655
money-loving1703
money-mad1768
breadhead1991
1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent i. i. 2 Sour, unrelenting, Mony-loving Villains.
1866 S. B. James Duty & Doctr. (ed. 2) 49 A pushing, eager, pleasure-loving, world-loving, money-loving age!
1991 Elle (U.S. ed.) July 12/3 I see plays or movies that depict Asian women as weak, whorish, money-loving, and cold.
† money-meditating adj. Obsolete rare
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1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. ix. 179 Not so travels the Money-meditating Tradesman. View more context for this quotation
money-raising n. and adj.
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1650 Mercurius Pragmaticus (for King Charls II) No. 53 sig. Ggg2v For the news from Ireland so doth puzzle the Saints that they have quite forgot their prayers, and fly to their old straine of Money-raysing.
1847 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Oct. 316 Henry began the comparatively modern system of money-raising, getting what he could from Parliament..and obtaining the rest by a thousand extraordinary and tyrannical expedients.
1916 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 22 15 In money-raising campaigns extraordinary zeal can be developed by fostering rivalry among soliciting ‘teams’.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 29 Mar. 105/3 The huge success of money-raising efforts.
1991 Canada Lutheran Nov. 16/3 Craft and bake sales, drama nights, raffles, and other money-raising activities.
money-saving n. and adj.
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1824 J. G. C. Brainard Lett. found in Ruins Fort Braddock ii. 9 These degenerate and money-saving times.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xviii. 168 The Americans are a time and money saving people.
1993 A. Dacyczyn Tightwad Gaz. iv. 172/2 Is this nitpicky money-saving idea worth your time?
money-spending n. and adj.
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1609 Pasquils Iestes (new ed.) sig. F2v An idle headed fellow,..determining, after a litle money spending, to returne home with a budget full of newes.
1822 T. McCulloch Stepsure Lett. (1960) 134 Our country people are a time and money-spending race.
1900 J. London Let. 1 Mar. (1966) 97 The habit of money spending.
1992 Economist 22 Aug. 14/1 A cascade of criticism of the new ‘council tax’ threatens to send ministers into a money-spending panic.
money-taking n. and adj.
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1681 A. Behn 2nd Pt. Rover iv. 55 What difference then between a money-taking Mistriss and her that gives her Love.
1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall I. xvi. 270 With..cash-box, and other paraphernalia or [sic] money-taking before him.
1909 Daily Chron. 5 Jan. 3/5 One needs a certain amount of business training and some knowledge of finance properly to enjoy ‘Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford’, for the hero's money-making, or rather money-taking, schemes are just the least bit in the world intricate.
2000 Bangkok Post (Electronic ed.) 24 June Angry responses from the politician's die-hard fans, and accusations of ‘political manoeuvering’ and ‘money-taking’.
(c)
money-conscious adj.
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1933 Punch 5 July 25/1 We learn to eat at least a twelve-month before we learn to talk; not till several years after that do we become money-conscious.
1963 Times 1 May 15/4 The parties being money-conscious to the highest degree.
1996 S. Lavery et al. Hamlyn Encycl. Complementary Health 96/1 She will..ask if you are a perfectionist, a rebel, money-conscious, or fashion-conscious.
money-directed adj.
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1970 T. Hilton Pre-Raphaelites vi. 171 The destructiveness of capitalist society, its callous and money-directed disregard of culture.
c. Adverbial and instrumental.
(a)
money-bloated adj.
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1833 G. H. Calvert Vol. from Life H. Barclay vii. 124 Any thing is more bearable than the self-complacence of a money-bloated upstart,—a would-be exclusive.
2002 www.msnbc.com 22 Jan. (O.E.D. Archive) There are no best-sellers for him, no money-bloated deals with Hollywood.
† money-distressed adj. Obsolete rare
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1858 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond (ed. 3) xiv. 143 Few fond women feel money-distressed.
money-mad adj.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > money-loving
pecunious1509
philargyrous1655
money-loving1703
money-mad1768
breadhead1991
1768 Woman of Honor III. 219 That money-mad avarice.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 79 Fear of my money-mad fellow-men.
1994 Amer. Spectator Jan. 36/2 Hollywood is still hyper-competitive, money mad, and meritocratic to the extent of frenzy.
money-minded adj.
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1588 W. Kempe Educ. Children sig. C3 One of these money minded parents.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 769/4 The insistence of the more money-minded directors on its premature exploration.
1992 Free China Rev. May 7/2 Everyone is so money-minded these days.
† money mouthed adj. Obsolete rare
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1604 R. Pricket Honors Fame (1881) 4 Some golden mony mouthed eloquence, that vseth a detractors Oratory.
(b)
money-mindedness n.
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1927 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 32 957 To turn to tests of particular attitudes..we may mention those by Shuttleworth.., of money-mindedness [etc.].
1960 20th Cent. May 399 Now money-mindedness plays an increasing part in men's attitudes.
1995 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 29 Jan. (Mag. section) 7 Visiting Europeans marvelled at the money-mindedness of [New York's] inhabitants.
C2.
money act n. now historical and rare a legislative act dealing with financial matters.
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1729 B. Franklin Paper Currency in Writings (1905) II. 148 The Money-Acts in every part [are] punctually enforced.
1847 Littell's Living Age 4 Dec. 474/2 The money act of 1844 is repealed by anticipation.
1984 T. Polvinen Imperial Borderland (1995) xv. 210 The Russians were troubled at the legal implications of abolishing the Money Act of 1877 without the consent of the Diet.
money advice n. professional advice on financial problems; debt counselling; frequently attributive.
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1980 Consumers & Credit (BNC) 74 A successful money advice service on the Birmingham lines..has been set up within the New Cross CAB in London.
1985 Listener 14 Mar. 5/3 He began to receive help from a Birmingham money advice centre, who not only gave him sympathy but practical help.
1998 Community Care 30 Apr. 9/2 Gary Vaux, Hertfordshire Council's head of money advice, believes that none of the options on the drawing board—such as tax credits, vouchers or allowances—address the problem at its root.
money affairs n. financial concerns, monetary transactions.
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1702 R. Steele Funeral ii. 17 Your Lordship will send for Him when you are at Leisure to look upon Money-affairs.
1859 T. P. Bunting Life J. Bunting I. xii. 231 His somewhat complicated money-affairs were transacted by the Book-Steward.
1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 12 Dec. (1993) III. 157 You tell me I have..quenched your hopes even of getting your money affairs straight.
1979 MLN 94 1021 Winchester..and its environs are magical in their ability to carry him [sc. Keats] away to a charmed world far removed from the quotidian press of his money affairs.
money bank n. (a) = bank n.3 1a, 2a (now archaic and rare); a source of revenue; (b) North American = money box n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank
bank1482
banker's shop1565
Lombard1609
mount1622
money banka1628
cantore1673
banking housec1770
jug1845
a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) xvii. 230 That provident Lady..made his credit swell through all the mony-banks of Europe.
1865 W. Whitman Drum-taps 13 Nor market nor depot are we, nor money-bank in the city.
1875 Scribner's Monthly Mar. 631/2 The children's money banks had begun to rattle bravely with the pennies that were to go toward their holiday fund.
1988 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 9 June (Nassau ed.) ii. 19 The super sophisticates of CBS, who drove ‘Hee Haw’ out of the moneybank that is network prime time.
1992 Canad. Living 1 Dec. 189 (advt.) Includes full-size patterns and instructions for acrobatic clown, elephant floor cushion, clown money bank.
† money-banker n. Obsolete = money-dealer n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest
ten tribes971
gavellerc1200
usurerc1290
Caorsin1303
collybistc1380
ockererc1390
fenerator1447
usuraryc1450
usurier1480
user1566
fulker1568
money-monger1571
moneylender1598
twenty in the hundred1602
Jew's trump1605
putter-outa1616
money-bawd1631
chevisancer1633
use-man1633
Lombardeer1645
money-banker1677
bummaree1738
mahajan1852
sixty per cent1853
gombeen-man1862
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 18 All persons that have designs to get considerable Sums of Moneys into their hands for intended designs, or hazardous adventures, apply themselves to the Money-Bankers.
† money batterer n. Obsolete rare a person who clips (clip v.2 4a) or sweats (sweat v. 15) coins.
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society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [noun] > person who
clipperc1330
rounger?a1400
washerc1450
money batterer?1518
launderer1632
tonsor1697
money-clipper1759
plugger1842
sweater1845
shorter1857
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vjv Players, purse cutters money baterers Golde washers.
† money-bawd n. derogatory Obsolete a usurer.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest
ten tribes971
gavellerc1200
usurerc1290
Caorsin1303
collybistc1380
ockererc1390
fenerator1447
usuraryc1450
usurier1480
user1566
fulker1568
money-monger1571
moneylender1598
twenty in the hundred1602
Jew's trump1605
putter-outa1616
money-bawd1631
chevisancer1633
use-man1633
Lombardeer1645
money-banker1677
bummaree1738
mahajan1852
sixty per cent1853
gombeen-man1862
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Intermean ii. 9 in Wks. II Old Couetousnesse,..the Money-bawd, who is a flesh-bawd too, they say.
money broker n. = money-dealer n.; spec. a broker who acts as intermediary between lenders and borrowers in the money market.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer
Lombard1377
collybistc1380
banqueter1534
money-monger1571
scrivener1572
money man1585
money merchant1595
money broker1616
cashier1643
money-gentleman1665
money-jobber1692
moneyer1706
money-dealer1785
1616 B. Jonson in W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. Ded. sig. A5v Or, like our Money-Brokers, take vp names On credit, and are cossen'd.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. v. 113 Mr. Rothschild, the eminent capitalist and money-broker.
1934 F. E. Armstrong Bk. Stock Exchange vi. 108 When no ‘takers’ can be found someone has to provide the cash, and firms known as money brokers frequently agree to ‘take in’ the securities purely as a money-lending proposition.
1991 Financial Times 20 Mar. 32/7 In the UK market, each stock lending transaction is carried out through three parties—the lending institution, the borrower and a money broker.
money-broking adj. and n. (a) adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of a money-broker; (b) n. the activity of a money-broker.
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1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of My Landlord 1st Ser. II. 202 She's better where she is, so long as there is a respectable, sponsible, money-broking heritor.
1973 Daily Tel. 26 Apr. 20 Additional money-broking capacity was necessary to cope with the business that might flow to London from Europe following Britain's entry to the E.E.C.
1996 China Post (Taipei, Taiwan) 14 June (Focus on U.K. section) 27/7 In money broking, the Taiwan authorities only allow broking in foreign currencies.
money bug n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) (now rare) a person having great wealth or financial power.
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1891 Amer. Engineer 27 June 258/1 The money bugs of the East will be helpless in the coming contest, just as the aristocracy of France in 1792 were helpless before the storm of popular indignation which arose.
1922 Public Opinion 11 Aug. 132/2 The profiteering class, money bugs as the Americans call them.
1938 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 1937 248 991/2 The chambers of commerce and the money-bugs of the country are groaning about the taxation.
2012 M. B. Bohn Kin to Wind xix. 289 Unbelievably, my agents, club managers producers and promoters, like so many money bugs, were so busy setting up to profiteer that they couldn't see it was a dead end street.
money capital n. capital in the form of money; cf. capital adj. 2.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > provision of capital > capital or principal > types of
stock1598
artificial capital1772
circulating capital1776
natural capital1785
money capital1791
working capital1798
reserve1819
authorized capital1825
current asset1826
loan capital1848
capital asset1851
water1867
capital equipment1893
refugee capital1926
risk capital1927
hot money1936
venture capital1943
risk money1944
exposure1975
1791 T. Paine Rights of Man iv High taxes..lessen the money-capital of a nation.
1857 D. E. E. Braman Information about Texas 62 It is a business which quickly converts the unclaimed and exhaustless herbage of the wide-spread prairie-commons into money capital.
1991 Dissent Winter 61/1 Money capital is the key productive force—the vital fluid that makes the economy work.
money-catcher n. now rare a person who (or institution that) seeks to obtain money (cf. catch v. 28b, 32).
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1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. C4 A Money-catcher may be Stratus name.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. v. 35/2 The Disciples of this Money-catcher became so Exceeding Fierce.
1837 Knickerbocker Feb. 123 He was a money-catcher, and kept school on speculation.
1891 Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc. for 1891 i. 137 She was fashionably dressed, and had the air of one whose husband was a successful money catcher.
1952 U.S. Investor 5 Jan. 23/3 One of the chief trends in commercial banking, now, is the activity in the consumer credit type of banking which is really a money-catcher and which greatly increases a bank's earning capacity.
money-catching n. and adj. (a) n. the action of seeking to obtain money; (b) adj. that seeks to obtain money; that attracts money.
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1684 H. N. (title) The pleasant art of money-catching.
1828 R. Montgomery Age Reviewed (ed. 2) ii. 209 (note) The present play-scribblers that bray round the two Patent Houses, have only one object in view—money-catching.
1901 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 500/1 I have seen him play Shylock, sometimes as a fierce money-catching old-clothes dealer of Jewry.
1990 Guardian (Nexis) 25 May 29/2 The need always to come up with money-catching projects will affect the intellectual standard of research.
money chest n. (a) a chest in which money is stored (now historical); (b) figurative financial resources.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun]
boxc1300
packa1393
money coffer1525
money box1585
cashc1595
kista1625
shuttle1626
money chest1683
lob1718
cash-chest1719
bank coffer1797
casket1832
cash-box1834
Peter1859
1683 Dutch Rogue 186 She brought in a great Iron money-chest fill'd with stones and other ponderous materials, which he supposed to be money.
1836 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) I. xvii. 393 To put a canker into the money-chests of the Protestant landlords.
1918 Amer. Hist. Rev. 24 33 The money-chest of the revolutionary executive was notoriously hollow.
1999 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 17 Sept. d1 There are..several historic pieces throughout the room, including..a money chest once belonging to Philip S. Van Rensselaer.
money claim n. chiefly Law a claim to recover a debt; the right to make such a claim.
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1844 E. Bulwer-Lytton Sketches from Life I. p. xxvii A shameful money claim, of which I did not dream, starting up after five years, on behalf of an acquaintance—not a large amount, by any means, but it is the third I have had.
1926 D. H. Robertson Banking Policy & Price Level 45 He hands his money-claim over to another person, who uses it for the provision of Capital.
1987 L. Brown Law for Haulier (BNC) 149 An entirely new form of money claim, called a ‘statutory demand’ (which does not have to be based upon a judgment) may revolutionize debt-collecting and litigation procedures.
money clause n. a clause (in a Parliamentary or similar bill) dealing with money.
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society > law > written law > [noun] > clause > types of clause
amendment1581
sanction1651
tack1705
money clause1844
conscience clause1859
interpretation clause1897
joker1904
1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. viii. 115 The assent of the Lords to a money-clause is just as necessary as to any other part of a Bill.
1867 J. A. Ferris Financial Econ. U.S. Illustr. 318 We must turn to the money clause to ascertain whether Congress had authority to make them ‘lawful money’.
1990 Guardian (Nexis) 11 June 8/6 The combination of the distinct society and the money clauses will give Quebec a formal degree of autonomy.
money clip n. a clip for holding banknotes together.
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1972 Times 13 Oct. 14/4 A money clip, in the shape of a buckle.
1992 N.Y. Times 21 July b9/2 A $250 fine is tip money to these guys. They have it in their money clip.
† money-clipper n. [ < money n. + clipper n.1 2a] Obsolete rare a person who fraudently pares the edges of coins.
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society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [noun] > person who
clipperc1330
rounger?a1400
washerc1450
money batterer?1518
launderer1632
tonsor1697
money-clipper1759
plugger1842
sweater1845
shorter1857
1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 68 A notorious shelter for Robbers and Money-clippers.
† money clipping n. Obsolete rare the action of fraudulently paring the edges of coins.
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society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [noun]
clippingc1440
washinga1513
rounding1562
money clipping1570
tonsure1621
sweating1785
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 425/2 About whiche tyme also,..Iewes for money clippyng were put to execution.
1683 R. Dixon Canidia ix. 85 Money clipping and coyning.
† money-codger n. Obsolete rare a miser.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 402 Musty, frousy, stingy, money-codger.
money coffer n. (a) a box or chest in which money is kept (now rare); (b) figurative financial resources.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun]
boxc1300
packa1393
money coffer1525
money box1585
cashc1595
kista1625
shuttle1626
money chest1683
lob1718
cash-chest1719
bank coffer1797
casket1832
cash-box1834
Peter1859
1525–6 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 331 For..mendyng of the lock of the money cofur within the plate chest.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. v. 115 I..did wake..To find..rifled vesture-chest, And ransacked money-coffer.
1996 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 5 May 15 a We ran out of sandbags because apparently our battalion's money coffer has gone dry.
money coiner n. a person who mints money; esp. a person who makes counterfeit coin.
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society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > coiner
minterOE
money-maker1297
forger1382
moneyera1400
coinerc1440
striker1449
printer1451
mintmaker1480
mintman1605
money coiner1742
1742 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Antiq. Rome xxxvi, in tr. A. Palladio Architecture (ed. 3) II. 78 The Mensarii had the inspection over Money-Coiners, and Bankers.
1866 Catholic World Aug. 693/2 Tomorrow we will know whether this wretch is a money-coiner or a magician.
1998 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 26 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) 33 English coin was meant to be high standard silver but ‘evil’ money coiners added more and more copper until nobody would accept the English silver penny.
money cowrie n. the cowrie Cypraea moneta, formerly used as money (see cowrie n. 1).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > shell of cowrie
argus-shell1750
cowrie1777
nutmeg cowrie1815
cowrie shell1817
money cowrie1826
1826 S. Stutchbury Jrnl. 26 May in Sci. in Sea of Commerce (1996) 86 In the shallow water, immense quantity of Money cowry was observed.
1936 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas (ed. 2) xvi. 349 The Money cowry..has been extensively used in almost every part of the world for purposes of exchange, the shells varying in value according to their size.
1983 Carfel Philippine Shell News Nov. 6 (title) Ancient money cowries.
† money creature n. Obsolete rare a person who will do anything for money, spec. a slave-dealer, a pimp.
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1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan i. sig. A4 The common bosome of a money Creature, one that sels humane flesh.
money crop n. U.S. a crop that is grown mainly for selling and not for the grower's consumption, as cotton or tobacco; a cash crop.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > cash-crop
money crop1867
cash-crop1869
1867 De Bow's Rev. Dec. 565 If it be supposed that cotton is made on a small farm..it would be a money crop and clear profit.
1904 T. Watson Bethany 5 They never failed to make it their object to produce on the farm the necessary supplies, tobacco or cotton being merely the surplus crop, the money crop.
1994 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 60 60 They had become increasingly committed to cotton as the principal money crop.
money-dealer n. a person who deals in money by exchange, banking, lending, etc.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer
Lombard1377
collybistc1380
banqueter1534
money-monger1571
scrivener1572
money man1585
money merchant1595
money broker1616
cashier1643
money-gentleman1665
money-jobber1692
moneyer1706
money-dealer1785
1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 278 When a..money dealer, becomes security for any native prince, the course is, for the native prince to countersecure the money dealer, by making over to him in mortgage a portion of his territory.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. iii. xxiii. §3. 183 In speculative times, money-dealers..are inclined to extend their business by stretching their credit.
1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone (1986) i. 14 Oh, they're unimpeachable so far as money-dealers go.
money dealing n. the action of dealing in money; (also, in plural) communication or association with someone about money.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun]
money-mongering1650
money-jobbing1757
finance1763
financiering1767
money dealing1772
financiery1799
1772 R. Cumberland Fashionable Lover v. 53 These are all the money dealings you have had with Lord Abberville?
1791 R. Jephson Two Strings to your Bow ii. 40 Commerce and money-dealing have been my business.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking i. 1 Some authorities assert that the Lombard merchants commenced the business of money-dealing.
1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte I. x. 136 Others of them had money dealings with her of a complicated kind.
1991 M. Pawlet et al. UK Financial Inst. & Markets (BNC) 153 The money dealing departments of commercial and eligible banks and Accepting Houses.
money-digger n. U.S. a treasure hunter, esp. one who believes buried treasure can be located by divination or other mystical means.In quot. 1769 a nickname.
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1769 N.Y. Gaz. 27 Feb. 3/3 A Negro Man named Jacob,..formerly known in this City, by the name of the Fu-Fu Negro, or Money-Digger.
1820 B. Silliman Remarks Tour Hartford & Quebec 121 Even to this hour..new pits are excavated by the insatiable money diggers.
1870 J. De Mille Boys of Grand Pré School x. 148 We haven't any mineral rod, nor any magic ceremonies. We're merely a plain, hard-working crowd; not of money-diggers, but of archæologists.
1998 New Republic (Electronic ed.) 23 Feb. Smith and many of his contemporaries became avid money-diggers.
money-doubler n.
Brit. /ˈmʌnɪˌdʌblə/
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U.S. /ˈməniˌdəblər/
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West African English /ˌmɔniˈdɔbla/
(in Nigeria) a confidence trickster who claims to be able to double a person's money.
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1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 5 Aug. 15/2 The money doubler was said to have swindled the bank official by promptly making away with the cash.
1987 A. Tutuola Pauper Brawler Slanderer xvi. 77 He told the women all over the town that he was a money-doubler and that he was able to double their money for them.
money draft n. (also money draught) a written order for the payment of money addressed to a person holding funds available for this purpose.
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1758 Let. to Mayor wherein Discouragem. of Seamen are Examined 19 These assigned Tickets would be equal to Money-draughts upon any responsible Banker.
1980 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 16 Sept. 2 An experiment has begun in Campbell County to allow the payment of fines through a Western Union money draft.
† money-dropper n. Obsolete a confidence trickster who drops a piece of money and then pretends to have found it, in order to accost and gain the confidence of the intended victim; also in extended use.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster > types of
ring-chopper1575
ring-faller1575
guinea-dropper1710
gambler1735
money-dropper1737
ring-dropper?1780
pigeon dropper1858
bunco-steerer1875
1737 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 617/1 In Former times, even Ministers of State were not ashamed to turn Money-droppers.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xv. 115 A rascally money-dropper, who made it his business to decoy strangers in that manner, to one of his own haunts.
† money-dropping n. Obsolete a kind of confidence trick; cf. money-dropper n.
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1737 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 617/1 Amongst all the indirect Means of getting Money, none hath been more practised amongst Us than what is called Money-dropping.
money economy n. an economy based on the use of money rather than barter as a means of exchange.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system
free market1642
peasant economy1883
agriculturism1885
money economy1888
price system1889
external economy1890
peace economy1905
war economy1919
planned economy1924
market economy1929
circular economy1932
managed economy1932
mixed economy1936
market socialism1939
plural economy1939
market capitalism1949
external diseconomy1952
siege economy1962
knowledge economy1967
linear economy1968
EMU1969
wage economy1971
grey economy1977
EMS1978
enterprise culture1979
new economy1981
tiger1981
share economy1983
gig economy2009
1888 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 51 809 Now this system is being replaced by a money economy.
1942 L. B. Namier Conflicts 50 It is not easy to translate into exact figures this barter business, which is..contrasted with the money-economy and transactions of the Western Powers.
1992 B. Coote Trade Trap xii. 159 Most of Bangladesh's huge population of 115 million people..relies on agriculture or fishing for a livelihood, often operating outside the money economy.
money flower n. [so called from its round, flat seed pods] now rare the plant honesty, Lunaria annua; cf. money plant n. (a).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers > honesty
lunaryc1386
shabub1548
bolbanac1578
money flower1578
penny-flower1578
honesty1597
moonwort1597
pricksong wort1597
satin1597
satin flower1597
white satin1597
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. vi. 154 The Brabanders..do call it Penninckbloemen, that is to say, Penny floure, or mony floure.
1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 308 Mony-flower. Bulbonach... It groweth in woods and gardens... Fl: in Aprill, the next year after sowen... N. Lunaria. Viola lunaris & latifolia Dod.
1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 288 L[unaria] annua (syn. L. biennis), ‘Honesty’, ‘Money Flower’, ‘Satin Flower’.
1993 C. Lloyd Flower Garden 15/2 The different colour forms of honesty or money flower, Lunaria annua, I try to assign to special locations, so that they do not interbreed.
money fund n. (a) = fund n.1 2a; (b) Finance an investment fund run to resemble a standard bank account, intended to offer a steady rate of interest on relatively low-risk investments.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose
box1389
packa1393
stock1463
bank1559
fund1660
fond1664
nest-egg1801
money fund1860
cookie jar1936
1860 Sci. Amer. 18 Aug. 116/2 A money fund for ordinary expenses, and for the trial of experiments.
1982 H. Wiesner Which? Bk. Saving & Investing xx. 191 A few deposit-taking institutions also offer other forms of accounts—for example, savings schemes, money funds (where the fund is managed and invested in the money market.
1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 3 Oct. I would like to know more about cash unit trusts or money funds and whether investing in them would be a good idea for me or not.
† money-gentleman n. Obsolete rare a person who is a gentleman by birth but who nevertheless works as a financier.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer
Lombard1377
collybistc1380
banqueter1534
money-monger1571
scrivener1572
money man1585
money merchant1595
money broker1616
cashier1643
money-gentleman1665
money-jobber1692
moneyer1706
money-dealer1785
1665 S. Pepys Diary 7 Apr. (1972) VI. 75 Unless the King can get some noblemen or rich money-gentlemen to lend him money.
† money-gold n. Obsolete (rare in later use) gold coin.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > (a) gold coin
golds1478
gold coin1533
ruddock1567
red one1568
goldingc1580
pestle of a portigue1598
gold piece1606
yellowhammera1627
yellow boy1654
spanker1663
ridge1667
gold drop1701
spank1725
glistener1818
money-gold1841
canary1851
1841 N.Z. Jrnl. No. 32. 92 Natives talk about money-gold.
1842 Lett. Settlers in Wellington, Nelson & New Plymouth (1843) 137 We can get them [sc. pigs] from the natives for blankets, or for ‘money gold’ as they call it, which we call sovereigns.
1881 J. B. Howe Common Sense Money Introd. 53 For every dollar or pound of gold taken out of bullion, and coined and carried into money, gold bullion was made geometrically short by 1 dollar or 1 pound in weight of its bullion in market, and the money gold in circulation was made arithmetically long by 1 dollar or 1 pound.
1925 J. Gregory Bab of Backwoods xxiii. 283 Gold that had..been dull bits of ore dug from rocky hillsides; that men had taken and made into money-gold.
money-grabber n. a covetous or rapacious person.
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1892 F. E. W. Harper Iola Leroy xv. 133 They..looked upon us as a lot of money-grabbers, who would be willing to purchase peace at any price.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 283/3 A money-grabber, notorious in a money-grabbing age.
1956 People 13 May 8/1 Other tenants of slum houses..are victims of a growing army of money-grabbers the law can't touch.
1997 N. Kelly Continuing Adventures of Gurdy O'Grady in S. Champion & D. Scannell Shenanigans (1999) xviii. 294 There are money-grabbers and leeches and worms, and all of them will use you.
money-grabbing adj. (of a person) that covets money, that habitually appropriates money; (of a thing) characterized by the desire for or appropriation of money.
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1888 Catholic World Jan. 447 One finds the wealthy land-owner, the aristocrat, the money-grabbing official.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go 9 We say it is a mere material struggle, a money-grabbing affair.
1994 Summit Bank Third Quarter 1/1 Money-grabbing con artists have come up with a slimy bag of new tricks.
money-hunter n. a person who seeks to obtain money; (spec. in early use) †= money-digger n. (obsolete).
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1729 B. Franklin in Amer. Weekly Mercury 20 Mar. 2/2 Astrologers..are often consulted about the critical Times for Digging, the Methods of laying the Spirit, and the like Whimseys, which renders them very necessary to and very much caress'd by the poor deluded Money-hunters.
1853 E. C. Gaskell Let. Sept. (1966) 244 These people..bring up their sons with only just enough learning to qualify them for over-lookers during their father's lifetime and greedy grasping money-hunters after his death.
1987 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 10 July e2 What's particularly attractive to federal money hunters about this, the report indicates, is that it raises big money fast.
money hunting adj. and n. (a) adj. that seeks to obtain money; (b) the action of a money-hunter.
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1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 370 The plodding, money-hunting tribe.
1832 J. Hall Legends of West 65 If you do but quit money-hunting, I am satisfied.
1859 Weekly Globe (Toronto) 16 Dec. in Jrnl. Negro Hist. 6 (1921) 177 The money-hunting, cotton-worshipping world.
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 103 And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women.
1994 Denver Post (Nexis) 30 Apr. c1 The software package has sold more to brokers than individual companies, which often hire specialists to do their money hunting.
money illusion n. originally U.S. the view, which disregards the effect of inflation, that money has a fixed value in terms of its purchasing power.
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society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] > illusion of
money illusion1928
1928 I. Fisher Money Illusion (1929) i. 4 The ‘Money Illusion’.., the failure to perceive that the dollar, or any other unit of money, expands or shrinks in value.
1975 Times 30 June 12/8 Money illusion is, as in Germany, dying..as people spend indexed wages rather than save.
1994 Economist 24 Dec. 96/3 One of the core assumptions of much current macroeconomic theory is that people do not suffer from ‘money illusion’—that is, they do not confuse changes in money prices with changes in real prices.
† money-jobber n. Obsolete a dealer in money or coin.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer
Lombard1377
collybistc1380
banqueter1534
money-monger1571
scrivener1572
money man1585
money merchant1595
money broker1616
cashier1643
money-gentleman1665
money-jobber1692
moneyer1706
money-dealer1785
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 102 That..the dextrous and combining Money jobbers not have too great and unbounded a Power, to Prey upon..Ignorance or Necessity.
1762 D. Mallet Poems on Several Occasions 41 The full-fed herd of money-jobbers, Jews, Christians, rogues alike and robbers!
1798 Bp. R. Watson Addr. People Great Brit. 5 Money-jobbers, who deal in large speculations on credit.
† money-jobbing n. and adj. Obsolete (a) n. the work or employment of a money-jobber; (b) adj. that deals in money or coin.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun]
money-mongering1650
money-jobbing1757
finance1763
financiering1767
money dealing1772
financiery1799
1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. i. 21 Men's Heads are busied with the Arts of Money-Jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 277 By this means the spirit of money-jobbing and speculation goes into the mass of land itself. View more context for this quotation
1812 R. Cumberland tr. Aristophanes Clouds 86 Ye money-jobbing caitiffs, userers, sharks!
money king n. U.S. a person of great wealth; a finance magnate.
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1838 D. D. Barnard Speeches & Rep. Assembly N.-Y. 106 To see him [sc. the President] sit as a great money king over the nation.
1900 Congress. Rec. 7 Feb. 1610/1 Where ought control of the currency to rest?.. At present the banks and the money kings wield this power.
1998 World in 1998 (Economist Publ.) 65/1 The first ‘money kings’ were the Rothschilds as they emerged after the Napoleonic wars.
money launderer n. a person who engages in money laundering.
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1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Aug. c5 He would have proved that [he]..‘acted as a money launderer’ for an office supply firm heavily involved in the GSA bribery scandal.
1994 Crit. Intelligence Aug. 6/3 So far two prefectional governors, several mayors, a couple of prominent politicians and an endless bunch of flunkies and money launderers have been arrested.
money laundering n. the process of concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions (cf. launder v. 1b); frequently attributive.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > other aspects of money dealing
intromission1567
bargain and sale1602
transferability1776
exchange control1931
ratissage1957
fix1965
money laundering1974
1974 N.Y. Times 9 July 27/1 Nixon has publicly said he asked his top White House aides..to intervene in a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry into ‘money-laundering’ operations in Mexico City.
1994 Accountancy Sept. 34/2 Some find it hard to believe that the aura of secrecy that shrouds the islands doesn't hide money laundering or other shady dealings.
money letter n. now rare a letter containing money.
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1836 4th Rep. Commissioners Managem. Post-office Dept. App. 59 in Parl. Papers XXVIII. 33 If an individual is desirous of sending a money letter by the Post-office, what means does he take?
1887 Overland Monthly Apr. 371/2 He one day suddenly disappeared and could not be traced; the reason becoming speedily explained through the loss of a money letter.
1915 J. Crankshaw & J. Crankshaw Criminal Code Canada (ed. 4) vii. 430 Subsequently, on enquiry made of him, he produced the money letter from his pocket; and..it was held that he was rightly convicted of stealing it.
1980 Amer. Philatelist & Year Bk. Amer. Philatelic Assoc. 94 33 (title) An early trans-Atlantic money letter.
money-loser n. (a) a person who incurs a financial loss; (b) an unprofitable business venture.
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1872 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 715/1 Thank heavens he was no money loser.
1886 Overland Monthly Jan. 25 We worship the money getters and despise the money losers.
1928 Weekly Disp. 6 May 15 About 30 [musical comedies] prove to be money-losers.
1989 Forbes 20 Mar. 129/1 Within a year, he had cut $25 million out of annual expenses by trimming the work force and dumping moneylosers like group medical policies.
money-losing adj. that incurs or is characterized by a financial loss.
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1844 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Apr. 444/1 These brave exploits of the New Yorkers are..almost forgotten by their descendants in this money-losing and money-getting age.
1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 200 It is the greatest money-making and money-losing spot on the globe.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 87/2 All your life you have heard that farming is a money-losing proposition.
1990 F. Dannen Hit Men (1991) i. 6 In 1972 he took over CBS Records' money-losing English label and steered it into the black.
money man n. †(a) a lover of money; (b) a financier or backer; a financial expert.Sense (a) apparently represents an isolated use.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer
Lombard1377
collybistc1380
banqueter1534
money-monger1571
scrivener1572
money man1585
money merchant1595
money broker1616
cashier1643
money-gentleman1665
money-jobber1692
moneyer1706
money-dealer1785
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. i. 5 As before he exhorted vs to come and buie freely, without monie; because God is no monie man.
1614 T. Adams in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1870) I. Ps. x. 9 A money-man may not be damnified, but he may be damned.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 18 Sept. (1970) III. 200 To dinner to Sheriffe Maynells, the great money-man.
1845 W. J. Linton Bob Thin 6 The money-men who ‘sow the wind’, And ‘bills of rights’ by taxes paid.
1928 Collier's 5 May 36/3 Dat fool gal datin' wid me and wawkin' off wid dat money man.
1994 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 Dec. 9/6 A major money-man for Bill Clinton..was convicted for ‘social distribution’ of cocaine in 1986.
money management n. the management of financial affairs.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun]
financing1732
economy1741
finance1763
economics1851
money management1935
1935 Rev. Econ. Statistics 17 20/1 The widely conflicting schools of money management and economic planning.
1993 Money Apr. 11/1 (advt.) Maybe it's time you took advantage of the money management skill of America's largest stock fund manager.
money manager n. a person employed to look after the financial affairs of a company or of individuals.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money
hoarder944
treasurerc1290
purse-bearerc1300
coffererc1330
pursera1450
boucherc1450
bowgerc1450
purse-masterc1450
thesaurer1473
expenditor1499
bowser1534
bursarya1552
bursar1587
stock-keeper1589
bag-bearer1598
bourser1685
sumptuary1789
money manager1874
investment manager1879
tizzy-snatcher1914
1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 19 Sept. 371/3 A few glimpses at an historic money-manager ought not to be uninviting.
1955 Jrnl. Finance 10 121 It is the task of the money manager to ensure that his firm has sufficient funds to operate.
1993 Wall St. Jrnl. (European ed.) 19 Aug. 1/6 As stock prices climb steadily higher, the debate among Wall Street's savviest and best-paid analysts and money managers over where the market goes from here is becoming more heated.
money mart n. a place where financial transactions take place.
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a1625 J. Fletcher Demetrius & Enanthe (1951) iii. ii. 49 Thou shalt know..I am no Ward: No stale Stuff, for your money-Marts.
1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 1 Great money marts have arisen and expanded into paramount importance.
1895 E. Radford Suburban in Old & New ii. 79 The Devil's din Of London's damned money mart.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Apr. d3 Ordinarily I tend to go against a ‘hot’ [baseball] team in the money mart.
1998 Ottawa Sun (Nexis) 23 Sept. 14 The long, grim decline of the dollar in the world money mart.
† money-master n. Obsolete a person who possesses large funds for doing business; a banker, a moneylender.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer > capitalist or financier
money-master1577
moneyed mana1593
financier1601
fooker1607
fowker1630
man of finance1701
moneyed interest1711
capitalist1774
fundlord1821
financialist1831
financian1840
financist1846
capitalizer1874
player1934
1577 in Parish Docs. York (1948) 135 I called him a..moneymaister And further saied that with him..money maye do all thinges.
1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. in Wks. (1885) VIII. 28 An hoary money-master..his only recreation was but to hop about the Burse.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 339 They are great Bankers and mony Masters.
a1652 R. Brome Damoiselle ii. i. sig. C4v, in Five New Playes (1653) How I love a hard-bound Money-master.
money merchant n. a trader in money, a money-dealer or moneylender.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer
Lombard1377
collybistc1380
banqueter1534
money-monger1571
scrivener1572
money man1585
money merchant1595
money broker1616
cashier1643
money-gentleman1665
money-jobber1692
moneyer1706
money-dealer1785
1595 H. Chettle Piers Plainnes Prentiship 23 To this money merchant we come.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xxi. 12) Christ is everyday casting out of his Church all these money merchants.
1829 D. W. Jerrold Bride of Ludgate ii. i. 39 But come, your wings, or the money-merchant will return.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Jan. (District Weekly section) dc 1 I don't owe a thing to the money merchants.
2000 Bangkok Post (Nexis) 4 Apr. The UN co-ordinator..told the conference that squeezing the drug lords and money merchants in the Caribbean creates other problems.
moneypaper n. now rare a banknote, a promissory note.
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1756 B. Franklin Let. 21 Mar. in Papers (1963) VI. 426 I received the Money he sent me, on the Post Office, and Money-Paper Accounts.
1783 J. Woodforde Diary 4 Sept. (1926) II. 93 He sent inclosed in his Letter some Continental [sc. American] Money Paper valued there at 10 Shillings.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xvi. 359 The letter..was from Memphis and it had a post-office moneypaper in it, and that was all... And then in November another moneypaper came, without any letter or anything.
money player n. (a) North American a person who performs particularly well when competitive pressure is intense (originally in gambling, when the stakes are high); (b) a professional, as opposed to an amateur.
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1922 Baseball Cycl. 114/2 If you want to know what a money player is, ask a man who has been in a flock of world's series.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 77/1 Money player, the tougher the game, this particular gambler excels on account of having lots of nerve.
1936 J. T. McIntyre Steps going Down xli. 394 He does nice work with a cue... For a money player and in a pinch; give me Toomey.
1939 New Yorker 26 Aug. 62/2 As a holder of the British Open, United States Open, and P.G.A. championships, Barnes was the greatest money player in the game.
1944 Gen 11 Mar. 30 It is one of the die-hard notions that no money-player is fit to lead an England team.
1989 New Yorker 11 Dec. 45/3 Farrell was always a money player.., and she beat the odds more often than any comparable performer you can name.
2000 N.Y. Times 9 May d4/2 The guys who are out there on the [basketball] court are definitely money players. Larry is a proven big-time player, as we saw last series.
money politics n. [after Japanese kinken seiji, lit. ‘money-power politics’ (1921) < kin gold, money + -ken power + seiji politics] (originally in Japan) a political situation or system in which a politician will promote the interests of a particular interest group in return for financial support.
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1975 Newsweek (Nexis) 7 July 16 A classic, and certainly legal, set of maneuvers in modern money politics.
1995 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 102/2 Investors not only fund extortionately priced TV campaigns, which drive the money politics of this era to its wretched excess, but also confer legitimacy and an aura of soundness.
2005 Daily Yomiuri 29 July 3/2 The party [sc. the LDP] is increasingly concerned that it could again face strong public criticism over shady money politics.
money pot n. (a) an earthenware money box from which coins can be taken only by breaking the vessel; (b) a place in which money accumulates, a large sum of money.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun] > for savings > small pottery
pyne pig1488
penny-piga1646
money pot1681
pirlie1799
pig bank1902
piggy bank1913
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iv. §iv. 381 A Roman Money-Pot..fashion'd almost like a Pint Jug without a Neck. Closed at the top, and having a Notch on one side, as in a Christmas-Box.
1872 W. E. Webb Buffalo Land 193 Some future quarry~man might blast out an oyster-knife and money pot of quaint coins.
1946 New Yorker 11 May 35/1 All through his time on the edge of the moneypots of lower and the fleshpots of upper Manhattan, he remained a devout, abstemious, rigid young man.
1989 A. Lorenz Fighting Chance iv. 117 Vast money pots developed during the bull market, and as one observer noted: ‘I think they grew faster than their capacity to manage themselves.’
money power n. (a) the power to coin money, regulate its use, etc.; (b) the power or influence exercised by money or by wealthy people, institutions, etc.
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society > authority > power > [noun] > power exercised by money
money power1829
society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > right of
coinagec1380
money power1829
1829 H. R. Doc. 21st U.S. Congress 1 Sess. No. 6. 12 The application of the money power of the Government to regulate the unequal action.
1840 J. S. Mill in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 11 The additions to the ‘money-power’ of the higher ranks, consist of the riches of the novi homines who are continually aggregated to that class from among the merchants and manufacturers.
1959 Ann. Reg. 1958 90 The United Party was pictured as being..dominated by jingoes and in the hands of the money-power.
1998 Indianapolis Star 24 May d2/1 Money power can't fabricate an equal to the illustrious Indianapolis track.
money purchase n. attributive designating or relating to a pension scheme in which the value of the pension received depends on the value of the contributions made and the returns made on their investment, rather than on the person's final salary and length of service.
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1958 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 31 296 There is need for this extra protection against possible inflation in a ‘money-purchase’ annuity plan based on past wage levels.
1991 Which? Aug. 463/1 The kind of benefits and pension you get depends on the type of scheme. There are two main types: final salary schemes, and money purchase schemes.
1996 L. Gough Choosing Pension vi. 90 They are final salary schemes, but your contributions are invested on a money purchase basis, which means you have your own personal fund.
money purse n. (a) a purse (now archaic and rare); (b) figurative financial resources.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money-bag, -purse, or -belt > [noun]
pungeOE
by-girdlec1000
purselOE
almonerc1330
pouch1355
almonryc1450
penny purse1523
cherry-bag1539
money bag1562
bung1567
jan1610
penny pouch1650
coda1680
zone1692
spung1728
money purse1759
spleuchan1787
skin1795
sporran1817
fisc1820
moneybelt1833
poke1859
purse-belt1901
1759 Newport (Rhode Island) Mercury 26 June 4/3 Imported in the last Ships from London and Bristol..Brass Kettles and Skillets.., Money-purses, &c.
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 273 We stood under fig-trees hung with money-purses filled with seeds.
1966 A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 33 I kept mine [sc. a dollar bill] for weeks in my little money-purse (we never called them purses).
2000 Corpus Christi Caller–Times (Nexis) 18 Aug. a14 The underlying factor has always been about who controls the money purse, trade and territory.
money-quake n. now rare a major financial crash.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > [noun] > commercial failure > general
crash1817
money-quake1841
1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man III. iii. 67 A money-quake, whose explosion should hurl all their fortunes into the air.
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. iii. 102 At the time of the general money-quake, he fell like the rest—failing for an immense sum.
1908 M. A. Grainger Woodsmen of West xxi. 132 Carter and Allen, tottering through no fault of theirs, shaken by some tremor of the New York money-quake.
1954 J. A. Reynolds Catholic Emancipation Crisis Irel. 1823–29 v. 73 In 1826 the shock of the money quake in England reached across the Irish Sea.
money rent n. now historical rent paid in money.
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1633 W. Lithgow Scotlands Welcome sig. C2 Let my Tythes, be brought to money rent, For Thee, from Land-Lord, and the poore Tennent.
1792 A. Young Trav. France iv. 340 Much the greater part of the lands of France are not let at a money-rent, but at one-half or one-third produce.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. ii. viii. 366 An attempt to introduce..a system of money rents and capitalist farmers.
1992 E. Acton Rethinking Russ. Revol. (BNC) 50 The payments the peasantry made for access to noble land, whether in the form of share-cropping, labour rent or money rent, constituted a massive burden upon the rural economy.
money scrivener n. now historical and rare a person whose business it was to raise loans on security, invest money for interest, etc., on behalf of clients.
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1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 8 Let a Gentleman..come to a Money Scrivener, and desire Four thousand pounds to be lent him on all his Land.
a1784 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1816) III. 20 Jack Ellis, a money scrivener behind the Royal Exchange.
1825 N.Y. Lit. Gaz. 10 Sept. 1/2 Frequenters of the post-office,..a bill acceptor, a money scrivener, a travelling trader, [etc.].
1863 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 315 Thomas Gray..was the son of a money-scrivener in Cornhill.
1901 Weekly Reporter 29 June 547/1 At the trial the plaintiff's counsel likened his client's particular class of business to the ancient calling of a ‘money scrivener’.
1990 Law & Hist. Rev. 8 241 He was a money scrivener, like so many other attorneys in this day before provincial banks.
money scrivening n. now historical and rare the work or occupation of a money scrivener (money scrivener n.).
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a1798 J. Palmer Like Master like Man (1811) I. xv. 213 By informing against the non-resident clergy—hampering the pudding sleeves: that, with money-scrivening, and a few lucky hits upon the turf, put him in cash.
1885 Weekly Notes 68/1 They did a considerable business in money scrivening, receiving money from clients both for specific and general investment.
1956 L. S. Pressnell Country Banking in Industr. Revol. iii. 43 He also practised money scrivening, and went into banking about 1784 with two local mercers.
money sense n. (a) the financial meaning; (b) good sense regarding money, soundness of judgement in financial matters.
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1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. i. 2 All are likely to be brought low with it, and made ‘poor’ enough, in the money-sense or a far fataller one.
1865 D. G. Rossetti Let. 14 Sept. (1965) II. 571 This might have been..executed..more profitably in a money-sense than what I did do.
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Jan. 62/3 Their hairdressing or their money-sense.
2000 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 20 Aug. m06 ‘Money Sense for Kids!’, by Hollis Page Harman... An easy-to-read reference.
money shark n. originally U.S. an avaricious money-dealer; a usurer, an extortioner.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest > at excessive rates
money shark1844
Shylock1894
loan-shark1905
shylocker1973
1844 Congress. Globe 28th Congr. 2 Sess. App. 37/2 Banks..managed..by a set of irresponsible money sharks.
1972 G. F. Newman You Nice Bastard 347 Moneyshark, unlicenced money-lender (operating at especially high rates of interest).
2000 Washington Times 2 Mar. m22 A very bad man, the local money shark.
money shop n. a shop where money can be obtained; spec. an establishment which performs some of the functions of a bank, and specializes in arranging loans.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer's establishment
bank1474
money shop1816
1816 W. Scott Let. 23 July (1932) I. 502 You had better be looking out & inquiring after some money-shop as we shall have enough of bills.
1836 J. F. Davis Chinese II. xxi. 415 The money-shop is paid by a liberal allowance for waste in melting and reducing the silver.
1972 Guardian 9 June 11 The new ‘money shop’ branches which are sprouting up in the High Streets... Money shops are not really banks at all... ‘Loan shop’..is still the best shorthand description.
1980 Consumers & Credit (National Consumer Council) (BNC) 20 Finance company personal loan. Rather like a bank personal loan..but often not specifying a particular purchase and arranged by post (or through ‘money shop’) with finance company.
money shot n. U.S. colloquial (a) Sport a shot on which the outcome of a match, etc., depends; a very important shot; cf. Compounds 3; (b) a provocative, sensational, or memorable sequence in a film, on which the film's commercial performance is perceived to depend; spec. (in a pornographic film) one showing ejaculation (= come shot n. at come n.1 Compounds); (also in extended use) a crucial or pivotal moment, event, or factor, esp. in another art form, as a novel.
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1928 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 6 Aug. 15/2 Bobby Jones [sc. a golfer] admits he gets scared when he has to make a money shot.
1961 A. Palmer Golf Bk. 38 In low-scoring, high-money tournaments, your drive becomes the money shot.
1977 S. Ziplow Filmmaker's Guide to Pornography 34 There are those who believe that the come shot, or, as some refer to it, the ‘money shot’, is the most important element in the movie.
1990 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 56/2 That glimpse of molar through the hole in Otto's cheek is the novel's money shot.
1991 Washington Post 4 June e7/1 In Kareem's waning years, when Magic [Johnson] was taking all the money shots.
2003 Film Comment May 17/1 The images were of the so-called money shots from well-known movies like Gone with the Wind or The Sound of Music.
† money-spelled adj. Obsolete ensnared, as if spellbound, by bribery or the lure of money.
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1613 T. Adams White Deuil 41 A mercenarie tongue and a money-spel'd conscience.
money standard n. (a) = standard n. 16b; (b) the level of money paid; (c) a standard measure of money supply.
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1757 J. Harris Ess. Money & Coins 84 In these parts of the world, silver is, and time immemorial hath been, the money standard.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Let. 8 Jan. (1945) II. 632 The rewards of the profession are not to be measured by the money-standard.
1914 Amer. Econ. Rev. 4 857 Usually the money-standard is chosen.
1979 Business Week (Industr. ed.) (Nexis) 29 Jan. 22 The money stock (M[3] is used in Britain as the basic money standard) rose by a mere 0.75% in December.
money stock n. (originally) a stock of money, financial resources; (now) spec. = money supply n.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun]
coffer1377
pursec1384
possibilityc1385
moneyc1390
financec1475
abilityc1503
purse stringc1530
moyen1547
means1560
financy1600
pocket1633
fonds1669
wherewith1674
apoinctee1682
funds1700
ways and means1738
money stock1743
pecuniary1748
pecuniar1793
wherewithal1809
ante1843
pocketbook1897
1743 H. Fielding Journey from this World i. xix, in Misc. II. 160 Our Money Stock we spend as fast as we acquire it.
1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 220 The labor of hands long ago still in the grave..is now entombed in money stocks, or in land and buildings owned by idle capitalists.
1992 D. Heymann in A. Vercelli & N. Dimitri Macroeconomics xii. 237 The price level is then derived by ‘inverting’ the portfolio balance condition, as a function of the money stock and expected inflation.
money-sucker n. depreciative a person who or thing which drains away one's supply of money.
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1653 J. Rogers Sagrir 56 The Lawyers are such Money-suckers, and Purse-soakers.
1849 E. Stirling White Slave ii. ii. 28 I'm no money-sucker, missa. I'm Miss Elinore's own maid.
1904 Mining Reporter 3 Nov. 464/2 It is a snare and a delusion, a money sucker, a bait and a barbed hook to catch the gudgeon and the tenderfoot.
1969 H. S. Thompson Let. 10 July in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 197 Running up bills on airlines and other exotic money-suckers, such as hotels, car rentals, etc.
2008 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 4 Jan. i. 6/1 Fitness may be the most popular New Year's moneysucker, but resolution expenses fall into other categories as well.
money-sucking adj. depreciative that drains away one's supply of money; (of a person) extortionist, grasping, avaricious.
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1836 Metropolitan Aug. 432 Those money-sucking leeches, who, dipping their pens in gall, will abuse Mr. Jenkins, and praise Mr. Wilkins.
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let ii. v. 162 A lot of slow-fly money-sucking officials.
2008 Indianapolis Star 13 July (State ed.) (USA Weekend section) 4/3 But what if the balance on your loan is much greater than the car's worth on the resale market? You're ‘upside down’, and you want to make this money-sucking situation right.
money supply n. Economics the total amount of money in a country's economy, as measured by various different criteria; cf. M n. 12.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > of a sovereign or state
exchequer1565
fiscal1590
fisc1599
finances1656
the public purse1659
public finance1676
Consolidated Fund1753
federal fund1836
money supply1871
treasury-chest1877
Federal Reserve1913
Fed1942
monetary aggregate1946
1871 W. Elder Questions of Day 125 Since the epoch of modern improvement in industrial production we find that prices..fall immensely in the face of a vast increase of the money supply.
1989 D. A. Hay Economics Today vi. 241 Preferably control of the money supply would be removed from government since governments are tempted to finance expenditure by monetary expansion, rather than by..raising taxes.
money-taker n. †(a) a person who takes bribes (obsolete); (b) a person appointed to receive payments of money, esp. the money for admission to a place of entertainment.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe > one who can be bribed
ambidexter1451
briber1520
bribe-taker1549
money-takerc1616
chopping-takera1670
bribee1776
bribable1852
squarable1898
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iv. 1442 Sayth master mony-taker, greasd i' th' fist, ‘And if thou comst in danger, for a noble I'le stand thy friend.’
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1185 I paid my penny to the money-taker.
1976 Wandsworth Boro' News 30 July 19/1 (advt.) Moneytaker..required.
2000 DSN Retailing Today (Nexis) 10 July 16 This leveraged asset would allow retailers to redefine the role of the traditional sales associate, from being a money-taker and merchandise-packer into more of a consultative role.
money teller n. †(a) a person who counts money (obsolete); (b) = automatic teller n. at automatic adj. and n. Compounds (rare).
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1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iii. f. 29v Money-tellers, and changers.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Dec. h1 It would cost $50,000 or less to install a remote money teller there.
† money-thirster n. Obsolete a person who craves money.
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1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ix. 524/1 The Legate himselfe, whom they termed an Vsurer, Symonist, Rent-raker, Money-thirster.
1651 J. French Art Distillation To Rdr. sig. *3v Did you never heare of a vapouring fellow..that..was..caught aside by money-thirsters?
money token n. anything serving the same purpose as a coin; esp. = token n. 11a.
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1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 193 They will need a market-place, and a money-token for purposes of exchange.
1896 I. M. Scott Hard Times 571/2 On this pittance as a redemption basis, is reared a money-token structure exceeding in magnitude a billion of dollars.
1986 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 1: U.S.S.R. (B.B.C) (Nexis) 22 Mar. SU/8214/A3/1 The extremists have opened a consulate of the so-called state of Khalistan in the British Isles... Moreover, they have set things up for issuing passports and money tokens for this mythical country.
money trader n. a moneylender; a currency trader.
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1711 J. Swift Examiner No. 44. ⁋1 The Mony-Traders, who could never hope to make their Markets so well..under any other Administration.
1912 Catholic Encycl. XV. 235/2 Aristotle disapproved of the money trader's profit; and the ruinous rates at which money was lent explain his severity.
1987 W. Greider Secrets of Temple i. iv. 125 The Fed Funds rate, which money traders watched as their key barometer,..moved like a Yo-Yo.
money trail n. originally and chiefly North American a series of financial transactions investigated to reveal evidence of personal or institutional policy, practice, or wrongdoing; cf. paper trail n. at paper n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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1912 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Sept. 4/1 Once a big thief or a big grafter has put his money into a bank, or into property, he has left a trail... There is only one way for a thief to hide his money trail. If his loot is cash and he puts it in a hole in the ground, he may be safe.
1980 H. L. Bretton Power of Money p. xvii The money trail provides the most reliable, most direct, path to the nerve centers in government and politics.
2005 Wall St. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 30 Sept. c5 Seeing a pile of cash growing on one side of [the] world and a crater of debt developing on the other supports the notion that a wealth transfer is taking place. But uncovering the actual money trail isn't so easy.
money transfer n. chiefly U.S. = wire transfer n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > specific banking procedures
standing order1619
out-clearing1836
credit transfer1847
clearance1858
resumption1866
money transfer1873
in-clearing1878
wire transfer1878
clearing1883
giro1896
lockbox1957
transfer payment1964
disintermediation1966
reintermediation1970
1873 Janesville (Wisconsin) Gaz. 10 Oct. The increase in the business of money transfers.
1993 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 22 Dec. He..then travelled to London and on to Rome where he received $4000 a month by money transfer.
2004 D. Porter & D. Prince Frommer's London 2005 31 In most countries, you can pick up a money transfer even if you don't have valid identification.
money value n. the value of something in terms of money.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun]
wortheOE
valuea1325
cost1340
valourc1350
valure1440
valora1483
valoir1496
valor1496
valuation1549
valent1765
vallidom1790
money value1848
money-worth1854
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. xii. 225 Last, and really least in comforting power.., came the consciousness of the money-value of the sovereign she yet held in her hand.
1858 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 391/1 In old countries, a high money-value is set on the services of men who have achieved a personal distinction.
1990 A. Webster Introd. Sociol. of Development (ed. 2) 29 GNP refers to the total money value of goods and services that are exchanged within a nation.
C3. attributive. U.S. colloquial (chiefly Sport). Designating a person who or thing which (regularly) wins or brings in a lot of money; successful. Hence in extended use: decisive in the outcome of something; crucial. Cf. in the money at Phrases 1b(b), money player n., money shot n. at Compounds 2.
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1910 N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 3 Feb. 12/3 He faces his man with the left out, tantalizes and jabs with it, but the money hook is the right.
1934 M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang 260 Money position, the winner of a contest, especially a horse race.
1949 Daily News (N.Y.) 3 Oct. 3/5 Pee Wee Reese..Duke Snider..and Luis Olmo..came through with money hits to break the tie.
1950 New Yorker 30 Sept. 48/3 Mr. Parker is one of those money actors who can pitch their way out of trouble.
1974 Everett (Washington) Herald 16 Oct. 1 c We are a money team. That's why we've been in the World series for the last three years.
1998 Chicago Tribune 27 Aug. iv. 1/3 Sosa has been the Cubs' money man all year, while Kerry Wood has been the Cubs' money pitcher.

Derivatives

ˈmoneywise adv. in terms of money, as far as money is concerned.
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1828 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 3rd Ser. II. i. 173 He disbursed in fact ten times more of his worldly substance in kind, than would, if he had properly disposed of it, moneywise, have secured him all the privileges he desired.
1859 W. D. Howells Let. 26 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1979) I. 47 I can't help you moneywise.
1958 Times 5 Sept. 11/5 An ill-disciplined, over-paid, frustrated youth, whose life chances have been vastly improved moneywise without commensurate social adjustment.
1994 N.Y. Times 4 Mar. a24/2 I would have had to find another apartment that moneywise would have been a struggle, or move in with one of my children.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† moneyv.

Forms: late Middle English 1600s 1800s money, 1500s monye, 1500s–1600s monye, 1500s–1600s 1800s monied (past participle).
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: French monnoyer ; money n.
Etymology: In early use in sense 1 < Middle French monnoyer (1260 in Old French as monoier ; 12th cent. in past participle; French monnayer ; compare Anglo-Norman moneer , monoier ) < monnoie money n. In later use independently < money n. Compare moneyed adj. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (mɒ·ni) /ˈmʌnɪ/.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To make (metal, etc.) into money; to stamp (a coin). rare.figurative in quot. c1450.
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society > trade and finance > money > coining > coin (money) [verb (transitive)]
coinc1330
smitea1387
forgec1400
printc1400
strike1449
moneyc1450
mintc1520
stamp1560
beat1614
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 59 (MED) On him was forged and moneyed thi ransoum; The wikkede smithes forgeden him on his bak and moneyden [Fr. monnoyerent] him.
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 148 If your Exportation will not Ballance your Importation..away must your Silver go again, whether Monied or not Monied.
1865 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. I. 136 The American..double-eagle..is perhaps the most beautiful and splendid coin ever moneyed in any mint.
2.
a. transitive. To supply with money, give money to (a person). Also: to bribe.
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > supply (person) with money
money1528
pouch1810
fund1900
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe
meedOE
underorna1325
corrump1387
forbuy1393
hirec1400
wage1461
fee1487
under-arearc1503
bribe1528
grease1528
money1528
corrupt1548
budc1565
to feed with money1567
to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580
sweeten1594
to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598
over-bribe1619
to buy off1629
palter1641
to take off1646
buy1652
overmoneya1661
bub1684
to speak to ——1687
to tickle in the palm1694
daub1699
overbuy1710
touch1752
palm1767
to get at ——1780
fix1790
subsidize1793
sop1837
to buy over1848
backsheesh1850
nobble1856
square1859
hippodrome1866
see1867
boodleize1883
boodle1886
to get to ——1901
reach1906
straighten1923
lubricate1928
to keep (someone) sweet1939
sling1939
to pay off1942
bung1950
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. xxvjv How many yeres they will prolonge the sentence with cavillacions & suttelte, if they be well monyed on both parties.
1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Gj Then come in the embassadours of Fraunce and monye a fewe prelates..to betraye both the kynge and the royalme to.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xi. 559/1 Some perfidious English, whom King Robert had monied.
?a1625 Lawes of Candy i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggg2/1 He out of his owne store, Hath monied Cassilanes the Generall.
a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) i. i. 12 Thou hast monied me in this nay Landed mee.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Let. 18 Feb. (1946) III. 349 Tuesday. I am engaged—to the banker who moneys me.
b. transitive. To provide money for (an undertaking), to finance. rare.
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > supply money for something
moneya1697
subsidize1852
refinance1895
fund1900
a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: Ingelbert (1898) II. 1 He was a poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton..moneyed the businesse.
3. transitive. To dispose of for money, to sell. rare.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)]
to sell awayc1230
to set to (for, on) sale, a-salec1275
sella1330
to make sale (of)c1430
market1455
to make penny of1464
vent1478
to put away1574
dispatch1592
money1598
vent1602
to put off1631
vend1651
hawk1713
realize1720
mackle1724
neat1747
to sell over1837
unload1884
flog1919
move1938
shift1976
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades vii. 130 Our pray was rich and greate; Fiftie soft flockes of curled sheepe [etc.];..And these soone monied wares We draue into Neileus towne.
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Money v.,..(Rare.) To dispose of for money; as, to money a cargo.
4. transitive. Scottish. to money out: to state the price of (a thing); to itemize the prices in (a tender or estimate).
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1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1059 (Scottish Specification) A detailed bill of every article contained in the estimate, together with the price at which each article was monied out, must accompany such tender.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 1 Nov. 7/3 The high prices at which they moneyed out their tenders.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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