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单词 money
释义

money

See also: Money

English

Alternative forms

  • monie (archaic)
  • mony (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (money), from Latin monēta (money, a place for coining money, coin, mint), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was.

In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmʌni/, [ˈmɐni]
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  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmʌni/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌni
  • Hyphenation: mon‧ey

Noun

money (usually uncountable, plural monies or moneys) (plural used only in certain senses)

Twenty Shilling banknote issued by the Pennysylvania Colony in 1771.
  1. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
  2. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
    • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
      At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
    I cannot take money, that I did not work for.
    Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
  3. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
    money supply;  money market
  4. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
  5. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
  6. Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth
    He was born with money.
    He married money.
  7. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
  8. A person who funds an operation.

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:money

Hyponyms

  • bad money
  • bank money
  • bar money
  • black money
  • blood money
  • bullet money
  • call money
  • cash money
  • caution money
  • checkbook money
  • coat money
  • commodity money
  • conduct money
  • conscience money
  • credit money
  • current money
  • deposit money
  • dirty money
  • dispatch money
  • door money
  • earnest money
  • easy money
  • even money
  • fiat money
  • folding money
  • foreign money
  • front money
  • full-bodied money
  • fun money
  • funny money
  • gate money
  • gun money
  • hard money
  • head money
  • hell money
  • hot money
  • house money
  • hush money
  • key money
  • knife money
  • lawful money
  • lunch money
  • mad money
  • Maundy money
  • Monopoly money
  • necessity money
  • neutral money
  • new money
  • old money
  • paper money
  • pin money
  • plastic money
  • plate money
  • play money
  • pocket money
  • prize money
  • protection money
  • push money
  • ready money
  • rent money
  • representative money
  • seed money
  • ship money
  • side money
  • silly money
  • sin money
  • smart money
  • sound money
  • spade money
  • spending money
  • standard money
  • till money
  • time money
  • token money
  • tribute money
  • trophy money
  • up-front money
  • white money

Derived terms

Terms derived from money
  • boat money
  • call money rate
  • cost of money
  • for my money
  • if money
  • in the money
  • knife money
  • make money
  • monetary
  • monetize
  • money bag
  • money belt
  • money bomb
  • money box
  • moneyboy
  • money broker
  • money can't buy happiness
  • money changer
  • money changing
  • money chest
  • money clip
  • money cowry
  • money crop
  • money does not smell
  • money doesn't grow on trees
  • money economy
  • moneyed
  • Moneygeddon
  • money-hungry
  • money illusion
  • money laundering
  • moneylord
  • money-loser
  • moneymaker
  • money makes the world go around
  • money-making
  • money market
  • money of account
  • money order
  • money pit
  • money plant
  • money-ridden
  • money scrivener
  • money shot
  • money spider
  • money-spinner
  • money supply
  • money's worth
  • money talks
  • money talks, bullshit walks
  • moneywise
  • near money
  • price of money
  • run for one's money
  • shoe money
  • sit-down money
  • street money
  • time is money
  • value for money
  • walk-around money
  • walking-around money
  • your money is no good here
  • mint

Descendants

  • Nigerian Pidgin: moni
  • Sranan Tongo: moni
  • Tok Pisin: mani, moni
  • Chuukese: moni
  • Crow: bálaa
  • Esperanto: mono
  • Finnish: mani
  • Hungarian: mani
  • Japanese: マネー (manē)
  • Pitjantjatjara: mani

Translations

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References

  • money on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

  • money in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • money in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • money at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • myeon, yenom

Middle English

Noun

money

  1. Alternative form of moneye
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