money

/ˈmʌni/

/ˈmʌni/

Other forms: moneys

Money is cash. You can have money in your pocket or money in the bank. People need money to buy things.

Every country has an agreed upon type of money: in the United States, it's dollars and cents. People need money to buy food, furniture, clothes, books — everything. You can't buy stuff without money. People may also invest their money in stocks and property. Using a credit card is a way to buy things when you don't have any money on you — so is a check. Most people want more money, and people will do a lot of things to get it.

Definitions of money

1. noun

   the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
   “we tried to collect the money he owed us”

   types:

   appropriation

   money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

   fund, monetary fund

   a reserve of money set aside for some purpose

   boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, mazuma, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

   informal terms for money

   shinplaster

   paper money of little value issued on insufficient security

   subsidisation, subsidization

   money (or other benefits) obtained as a subsidy

   token money

   coins of regular issue whose face value is greater than their intrinsic value

   pork, pork barrel

   a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

   mutual fund

   the pooled money that is invested in assets

   revolving fund

   a fund which, if borrowed or used, is intended to be replenished so it may be loaned or spent repeatedly

   sinking fund

   a fund accumulated regularly in a separate account and used to redeem debt securities

   nest egg, savings

   a fund of money put by as a reserve

   pension fund, superannuation fund

   a fund reserved to pay workers' pensions when they retire from service

   war chest

   a fund accumulated to finance a war (or a political campaign)

   slush fund

   a fund for buying votes or bribing public officials

   trust fund

   a fund held in trust

   bank deposit, deposit

   money deposited in a bank or some similar institution

   budget

   a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose

   petty cash

   a small fund of cash that a firm keeps for the payment of incidental expenses

   type of:

   medium of exchange, monetary system

   anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region
2. noun

   the official currency issued by a government or national bank
   “he changed his money into francs”

   types:

   sterling

   British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK

   type of:

   currency

   the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
3. noun

   wealth reckoned in terms of money
   “all his money is in real estate”

   types:

   big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks, pile

   a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)

   type of:

   wealth

   property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value