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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | financial |
| Synonyms: | banking, budgeting, business, economic, fiscal, monetary |
niˌɛr| Main Entry: | commercial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intended for financial gain |
| Synonyms: | Wall Street, exploited, for profit, investment, materialistic, mercenary, monetary, money-making, pecuniary, profitmaking, venal |
| Antonyms: | noncommercial, not-for-profit |
| Main Entry: | economic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | business-related; financial |
| Synonyms: | bread-and-butter, budgetary, commercial, fiscal, industrial, material, mercantile, monetary, money-making, pecuniary, productive, profit-making, profitable, remunerative, solvent, viable |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
Example Sentences
- In order to justify policy intervention, these concerns must be about externalities, either pecuniary or technological.
- The student's best interests should always be given higher priority than an institution's pecuniary interests.
- Perhaps they're put off by the principle of the thing, rather than the pecuniary loss.
| Main Entry: | financial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having to do with money |
| Synonyms: | banking, budgeting, business, commercial, economic, fiscal, monetary, numbers, numeric, pecuniary, pocket |
| Main Entry: | fiscal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | monetary |
| Synonyms: | budgetary, commercial, economic, financial, money, pecuniary, pocket |
| Main Entry: | monetary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning money, finances |
| Synonyms: | budgetary, capital, cash, commercial, financial, fiscal, pecuniary, pocket |
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