English noun: money |
1. | money (possession) the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender |
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| Samples | We tried to collect the money he owed us.
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| Broader (hypernym) | medium of exchange, monetary system |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | appropriation, boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, fund, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, monetary fund, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, shinplaster, simoleons, subsidisation, subsidization, sugar, token money, wampum |
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| Part meronym | money supply |
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2. | money (possession) wealth reckoned in terms of money |
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| Samples | All his money is in real estate.
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| Broader (hypernym) | wealth |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks, pile |
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3. | money (possession) the official currency issued by a government or national bank |
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| Samples | He changed his money into francs.
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| Broader (hypernym) | currency |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | sterling |
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