money

plural monies · plural moneys · alternative archaic monie · alternative obsolete mony · alternative pronunciation spelling munney · alternative pronunciation spelling munny

1. pluraluncountableusuallyA generally accepted means of exchange.

   I cannot take money that I did not work for.

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   Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.

   She used to spend money every day on makeup.

   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.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.

   2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848

2. pluraluncountableusuallyA currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).

   money supply; money market

3. pluraluncountableusuallyHard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques, credit cards, or credit more generally.

   You best have some money, cause there ain't no checks or credit here.

4. pluraluncountableusuallyThe total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
5. pluraluncountableusuallyWealth.

   He was born with money.

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   After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers and sisters gentlemen and ladies - for what cannot money do?

   1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 313

6. pluraluncountableusuallyA person, family or class that possesses wealth.

   He married money.

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   He was born into money.

   I grew up in Ballybeg, neither of my working-class parents came from money or went to university, so I was part of a working-class family, I assumed.

   2023 July 15, Megan Nolan, “‘I grew up on an “estate from hell” but I have no idea what class I am’: novelist Megan Nolan on the conundrum of identity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

7. pluraluncountableusuallyAn item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
8. pluraluncountableusuallyA person who funds an operation.

comparative more money · superlative most money · alternative archaic monie · alternative obsolete mony · alternative pronunciation spelling munney · alternative pronunciation spelling munny

1. USpluralslangCool; excellent.

   Seriously, check out pics on my Flickr. This coat is so money, it doesn’t even know how money it is.

   2009, Alexander Aciman, Emmett Rensin, “The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol”, in Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 34

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   But Schilling was great again today. As my younger son would no doubt say, he's so money he doesn't know he's money. Two more like him and never mind the World Series; the Red Sox would be ready for the Super Bowl.

   2011, Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King, Faithful

plural Moneys

1. countableuncountableA surname.

   This point highlights several of John Money's contributions to the field of behavioral science.

   1991, Eli Coleman, John Money: A Tribute, page xiv

2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States.

   Money, Mississippi, looks exactly like it sounds. Named in that persistent Southern tradition of irony and with the attendant tradition of nescience, the name becomes slightly sad, a marker of self-conscious ignorance that might as well be embraced because, let’s face it, it isn’t going away.

   2021, Percival Everett, The Trees, Influx Press (2022), page 11

3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.