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purse

noun

1 purse

A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).

synonyms: bag, handbag, pocketbook.

Roget 800: money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts etc. 811; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets etc. ... show more

Roget 802: treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper; cash register, kutcherry, bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room; coffer; chest etc. ... show more

Dutch: tas, handtas, tasje
Polish: torebka

2 purse

A sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse.

Polish: szkatuła, kiesa

3 purse

A small bag for carrying money.

Dutch: beurs, geldbuidel, geldtas, geldzak, knip, portemonnaie, portemonnee, zak
Polish: kabza, kiesa, sakiewka, mieszek

4 purse

A sum of money offered as a prize.

verb

1 purse

Contract one's lips into a rounded shape.

2 purse

Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker:
— Purse ones's lips.

synonym: wrinkle.


Moby thesaurus: Swiss bank account, abbreviate, and pence, assets, award, bag, balance, bank account, billfold, bottom dollar, bucks, budget, capital, cash, cash reserves, checking account, circumscribe, coarct, cocker, cockle ... show more.

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