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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

n the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender

“we tried to collect the money he owed us”

Types:: show 18 types...; hide 18 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, 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

n 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

n 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

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