money

Roget category 800

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.4. Monetary relations

#800. Money

noun

money, legal tender — money matters, money market — finance — accounts etc. 811 — funds, treasure — capital, stock — assets etc. (property) 780 — wealth etc. 803 — supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash — mammon.
[colloquial terms for money] dough, cabbage.
money-like instruments, M1, M2, sum, amount — balance, balance sheet — sum total — proceeds etc. (receipts) 810.
currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece [Fr.], hard cash, cold cash — dollar, sterling coin — pounds shillings and pence — Ls.
d. — pocket, breeches pocket, purse — money in hand, cash at hand — ready money, ready cash — slug [U.S.], wad [Slang] wad of bills [U.S.], wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough [Coll.] — rhino^†, blunt^†, dust^†, mopus^†, tin^†, salt^†, chink^† — argent comptant [Lat.] — bottom dollar, buzzard dollar^† — checks, dibs [Slang].
[specific types of currency] double eagle, eagle — Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency — Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate^†, gold certificate^† — long bit, short bit [U.S.] — moss, nickel, pile [Slang], pin money, quarter [U.S.], red cent, roanoke^†, rock [Slang] — seawan^†, seawant^† — thousand dollars, grand [Coll.].
[types of paper currency, U.S.] single, one-dollar bill — two-dollar bill — five-dollar bill, fiver [Coll.], fin [Coll.], Lincoln — ten-dollar bill, sawbuck — twenty-dollar bill, Jackson, double sawbuck — fifty-dollar bill — hundred-dollar bill, C-note.
[types of U.S. coins: list] penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper [1700-1900]; two-cent piece three-cent piece [Fr.], half-dime^†, nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel^†, dime, disme^†, mercury dime^†, quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, Eisenhower dollar, Susan B.
Anthony dollar^†.
precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget.
petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit^†, stiver^†, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea — rouleau^† — wampum — good sum, round sum, lump sum — power of money, plum, lac of rupees.
major coin, crown — minor coin.
monetarist, monetary theory.
[Science of coins] numismatics, chrysology^†.
[coin scholar or collector] numismatist.
paper money, greenback — major denomination, minor denomination — money order, postal money order, Post Office order — bank note — bond — bill, bill of exchange — order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat^† — blueback [U.S.], hundi^†, shinplaster [U.S.].
note, note of hand — promissory note, I O U — draft, check, cheque, back-dated check — negotiable order of withdrawal, NOW.
remittance etc. (payment) 807 — credit etc. 805 — liability etc. 806.
drawer, drawee^† — obligor^†, obligee^† — moneyer^†, coiner.
false money, bad money — base coin, flash note, slip^†, kite [Slang] — fancy stocks — Bank of Elegance.
argumentum ad crumenam [Lat.].
letter of credit.
circulation, multiplier effect.
[variation in the value of currency] inflation, double-digit inflation, hyperinflation, erosion of the currency, debasement of the currency — deflation — stagflation.
[relative value of two currencies] exchange rate, rate of exchange, floating exchange rates, fixed rates.
[place to exchange currencies] currency counter, currency exchange, bureau de change [Fr.].
gold-backed currency, gold standard, silver standard.
bank account, savings account, checking account, money market account, NOW account, time deposit, deposit, demand deposit, super NOW account — certificate of deposit, CD.
[money symbols] $ [U.S.], US$ [U.S.] — Y — A$.
[authorities controlling currency] Federal Reserve Bank [U.S.], central bank [U.S.] — Federal Reserve Board, board of governors of the Federal Reserve — Treasury Department — Secret Service.
[place where money is manufactured] mint, bureau of engraving.
[government profit in manufacturing money] seigniorage.
[false money] counterfeit, funny money, bogus money, (falsehood) 545.
[cost of money] interest, interest rate, discount rate.

verb

amount to, come to, mount up to — touch the pocket — draw, draw upon — indorse etc. (security) 771 — issue, utter — discount etc. 813 — back — demonetize, remonetize — fiscalize^†, monetize.
circulate, be in circulation — be out of circulation.
[manufacture currency] mint (coins), coin — print (paper currency). [vary the value of money] inflate, deflate — debase — devalue, revalue.
[vary the amount of money] circulate, put in circulation — withdraw from circulation.
[change the type of currency] exchange currencies, change money.
charge interest — pay interest — lose interest.

adjective

monetary, pecuniary, crumenal^†, fiscal, financial, sumptuary, numismatic, numismatical^† — sterling — nummary^†.

phrase

barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives [Lat.] [Ovid]; but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels" [Tennyson]; Gelt regiert die Welt [G.], money rules the world, money makes the world go round — nervos belli pecuniam infinitam [Lat.] [Cicero]; redet Geld so schweigt die Welt [G.] — money is the mother's milk of politics" [Tip O'Neill]; money is the root of all evil — money isn't everything — as phony as a three-dollar bill —" don't take any wooden nickels.
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