money [muhn-ee]
Main Entry:
money [muhn-ee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: currency accepted as exchange for goods, services
Synonyms: almighty dollar, banknote, bankroll, bill, bread, bucks, capital, cash, check, chips, coin, coinage, dough, finances, fund, funds, gold, gravy, greenback, hard cash, legal tender, loot*, medium of exchange, pay, payment, pesos, property, resources, riches, roll, salary, silver, specie, treasure, wad, wage, wealth, wherewithal
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Money.
Category: 4. Monetary Relations
Synonyms:
-nouns
money matters, money market; finance; accounts; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets (property); wealth; supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash., sum, amount; balance, balance sheet; sumtotal; proceeds(receipts)., currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; pounds s.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, ready money; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; cent, checks, dibs, dime, double eagle, dough, eagle; Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency; long bit, short bit [U.S.]; moss, nickel, pile, pin money, quarter [U.S.], red cent, roanoke, rock; seawan, seawant; slug [U.S.], wad [U.S.]., precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget., petty cash, pocket money, change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea; rouleau; wampum; good sum, round sum, lump sum; power of money, plum, lac of rupees., [Science of coins] numismatics, chrysology., paper money, greenback; money order, Post Office order; bank note; bond; bill, bill of exchange; order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat; blueback [U.S.], hundi, shinplaster [U.S.]., note, note of hand; promissory note, I O U; draft, check, cheque., remittance(payment); credit; liability., drawer, drawee; obligor, obligee; moneyer, coiner., false money, bad money; base coin, flash note, slip, kite; fancy stocks; Bank of Elegance., argumentum ad crumenam.
-verbs
amount to, come to, mount up to; touch the pocket; draw, draw upon; endorse (security), indorse; issue, utter; discount; back; demonetize, remonetize; fiscalize, monetize.
-adjectives
monetary, pecuniary, crumenal, fiscal, financial, sumptuary, numismatical; sterling; nummary.
-phrases
barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives [Ovid]; "but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels" [Tennyson]; Gelt regiert die Welt; nervos belli pecuniam
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Main Entry: backer
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: supporter
Synonyms: advocate, ally, angel*, benefactor, champion, endorser, follower, grubstaker, meal ticket, money, patron, promoter, protagonist, sponsor, staker, underwriter, well-wisher
Antonyms: antagonist, opponent, opposer
Main Entry: capital
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: financial assets
Synonyms: CD, IRA, business, cash, estate, finances, financing, fortune, funds, gold, interests, investment, kitty, means, money, nest egg, principal, property, resources, savings, stake, stock, substance, treasure, ways and means, wealth, wherewithal
Notes: the word capitol is from the Roman Capitoline Hill and the similarity between capitol and capital is purely coincidental; capitol applies to the building and capital to the seat of a government
Main Entry: capitalist
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person engaged in private ownership of business
Synonyms: backer, banker, bourgeois, businessperson, entrepreneur, financier, investor, landowner, moneybags, one who signs the checks, plutocrat, the boss, the money
Antonyms: communist
Main Entry: coin
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: metallic money
Synonyms: bread, cash, change, chicken feed, chips, coinage, copper, currency, doubloon, dough, gold, jack, legal tender, meter money, mintage, money, piece, scratch*, silver, small change, specie
Antonyms: bill, dollar
Main Entry: enclosure
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something included with a letter
Synonyms: check, circular, copy, document, form, information, money, printed matter, questionnaire
Main Entry: finance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: economic affairs
Synonyms: accounts, banking, business, commerce, economics, financial affairs, investment, money, money management
Main Entry: financier
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who lends money, advises
Synonyms: Santa Claus, backer, banker, bankroller, broker, businessperson, capitalist, entrepreneur, fat cat, grubstaker, manipulator, merchant, money, money lender, moneybags, operator, person who writes the checks, rich person, speculator, sponsor, staker, stockbroker, tycoon, usurer
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