money
1. the most common medium of exchange;
functions as legal tender (Freq. 77)
- we tried to collect the money he owed us
• Derivationally related forms:
monetary, moneyer
• Hypernyms:
medium of exchange, monetary system
• Hyponyms:
appropriation, fund, monetary fund, boodle, bread,
cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale,
lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf,
scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum, shinplaster,
subsidization, subsidisation, token money
• Part Holonyms:
money supply
2. wealth reckoned in terms of money (Freq. 15)
- all his money is in real estate
• Hypernyms:
wealth
• Hyponyms:
pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money
3. the official currency issued by a government or national bank
- he changed his money into francs
• Derivationally related forms:
monetary, moneyer
• Hypernyms:
currency
• Hyponyms:
sterling
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