Meanings
adjectivein funds (not comparable)
- UKdatednot comparableHaving enough money to spend.
[H]e knew from experience the imprudence of letting Zeena think he was in funds on the eve of one of her therapeutic excursions.
1911 October, Edith Wharton, chapter III, in Ethan Frome (The Scribner Library; SL8), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 71
Origin
From in + funds (“financial resources”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch in bonis
- in bonishaving enough money to spend
Finnish vauras
- vaurashaving enough money to spend
French être en fonds
- être en fondshaving enough money to spend
Polish kasiasty, dziany
- kasiastyhaving enough money to spend
- dzianyhaving enough money to spend
- nadzianyhaving enough money to spend
- forsiastyhaving enough money to spend
- przy kasiehaving enough money to spend
Russian при деньга́х
- при деньга́х (pri denʹgáx)having enough money to spend
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