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Definition: Money |
MoneyNoun1. The most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us". 2. Wealth reckoned in terms of money: "all his money is in real estate". 3. The official currency issued by a government or national bank; "he changed his money into francs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "money" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Money \Mon"ey\, noun; plural Moneys. [Old English moneie, Old French moneie, French monnaie, from Latin moneta. See Mintplace where coin is made, Mind, and compare to Moidore, Monetary.]. (references) |
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Satire | MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | Society's vindication of vulgarity. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Money Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again in connection with Jacob's purchase of a field at Shalem (Gen. 33:18, 19) for "an hundred pieces of money"=an hundred Hebrew kesitahs (q.v.), i.e., probably pieces of money, as is supposed, bearing the figure of a lamb. The history of Joseph affords evidence of the constant use of money, silver of a fixed weight. This appears also in all the subsequent history of the Jewish people, in all their internal as well as foreign transactions. There were in common use in trade silver pieces of a definite weight, shekels, half-shekels, and quarter-shekels. But these were not properly coins, which are pieces of metal authoritatively issued, and bearing a stamp. Of the use of coined money we have no early notice among the Hebrews. The first mentioned is of Persian coinage, the daric (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70) and the 'adarkon (Ezra 8:27). The daric (q.v.) was a gold piece current in Palestine in the time of Cyrus. As long as the Jews, after the Exile, lived under Persian rule, they used Persian coins. These gave place to Greek coins when Palestine came under the dominion of the Greeks (B.C. 331), the coins consisting of gold, silver, and copper pieces. The usual gold pieces were staters (q.v.), and the silver coins tetradrachms and drachms. In the year B.C. 140, Antiochus VII. gave permission to Simon the Maccabee to coin Jewish money. Shekels (q.v.) were then coined bearing the figure of the almond rod and the pot of manna. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of finding money, denotes small worries, but much happiness. Changes will follow. To pay out money, denotes misfortune. To receive gold, great prosperity and unalloyed pleasures. To lose money, you will experience unhappy hours in the home and affairs will appear gloomy. To count your money and find a deficit, you will be worried in making payments. To dream that you steal money, denotes that you are in danger and should guard your actions. To save money, augurs wealth and comfort. To dream that you swallow money, portends that you are likely to become mercenary. To look upon a quantity of money, denotes that prosperity and happiness are within your reach. To dream you find a roll of currency, and a young woman claims it, foretells you will lose in some enterprise by the interference of some female friend. The dreamer will find that he is spending his money unwisely and is living beyond his means. It is a dream of caution. Beware lest the innocent fancies of your brain make a place for your money before payday. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Economics | Any denomination of coin or paper currency of legal tender that passes freely as a medium of exchange. (references) |
| Something that is widely accepted in payment for goods and services and in settling debts. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Finance | Anything that is generally accepted as a medium of exchange, such as currency or precious metals. See money stock. (references) |
Literature | Money Shortly after the Gallic invasion, Lucius Furius built a temple to Juno Moneta (the Monitress) on the spot where the house of Manlius Capitolinus stood. This spot of the Capitol was selected because Manlius was the first man alarmed by the cackling of the sacred geese. This temple was subsequently converted into a mint, and the "ases" there coined were called moncta. Juno is represented on medals with instruments of coinage, as the hammer, anvil, pincers, and die. (See Livy, vii. 28, and Cicero, Dc Divinitate, i. 15.) The oldest coin of Greece bore the impress of an ox. Hence a bribe for silence was said to be an "ox on the tongue." Subsequently each province had its own impress: Athens, an owl (the bird of wisdom). Boeotia, Bacchus (the vineyard of Greece). Delphos, a dolphin. Macedonia, a buckler (from its love of war). Rhodes, the disc of the sun (the Colossus was an image to the sun). Rome had a different impress for each coin: For the As, the head of Janus on one side, and the prow of a ship on the reverse. The Semi-as, the head of Jupiter and the Jetter S. The Triens, the head of a woman (? Rome or Minerva) and four points to denote four ounces. The Quadrans, the head of Hercules and three points to denote three ounces. The Sextans, the head of Mercury, and two points to denote two ounces. Bowed money. Bent coin, given as a pledge of love. "Taking forth a bowed groat and an old penny bowed he gave it [sic] her."- Coney-catching. (Time, Elizabeth.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Danish (dask), German (Flocken, die , Mäuse, die, Moos, das, Patte, die), Hungarian (lé, lóvé), Swiss German (chiis, chlöib, schtäi, schtutz ). (references) |
Slang | Adjective. Source: It comes from the word "money," which refers to a form of currency. Definition: The term "money" means cool, in terms of determining what is acceptable and what is not. Context: One would use the term to describe something he/she likes, enjoys. Social Source: Swingers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Adjective. Source: From the word money. Definition: That something/someone is very cool and approved. Context: Used in almost any situation by the members of the Young Life speech community when describing something that is good. Social Source: Young Life leaders. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Adjective. Source: Same as the noun money but it has a different meaning. Definition: A unit used to purchase or consume items. Context: Used when referring to things, usually human beings as being very attractive . Social Source: Bend High School Class of 1999-2000 . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Adj. Source: Money is a good thing. Definition: Another term for good. Context: If something is referd to as money, they are accepting the fact that it's a good thing. Social Source: Theta Chi Fraternity. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
Slang in 1811 | MONEY. A girl's private parts, commonly applied to little children: as, Take care, Miss, or you will shew your money. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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simple:Money
Definition
Money is an intermediary, naturally or artificially scarce good. To qualify as money the good must satisfy all of the following three criteria:-
1. It must be a medium of exchange
When a good is in demand primarily for its exchange utility, for its ability to be used in trade to exchange for other things then it has this property.
e.g. Few people collect cash for its pretty pictures of dead heroes. The primary reason people want cash is so they can use it to trade for other things.
2. It must be a unit of account
When the value of a good is frequently used to measure and compare the value of other goods or where its value is used to denominate debts then it has this property. (Arguably a debt or an IOU can not serve as a unit of account because its value is in reference to some external reference value, some actual unit of account that may be used for settlement).
e.g. If in a culture people are inclined to measure the worth of things with reference to goats then we would regard goats as the dominant unit of account. For instance we may say that a horse is worth 10 goats and a good hut is worth 45 goats.
3. It must be a store of value
When a good is purchased primarily to store commercial value for future trade then it is being used as a store of value. Most non perishable goods have this quality.
e.g. A sawmill might maintain an inventory of lumber or it may keep an cash box full of currency. Both would represent a store of value as they can be converted at some future date to
See also standard of deferred payment.
Introduction
Money is one of the most central topics studied in economics and forms its most cogent link to finance.
There have been many historical arguments regarding the combination of money's functions, some arguing that they need more separation and that a single unit is insufficient to deal with them all. These arguments are covered in financial capital which is a more general and inclusive term for all liquid instruments, whether or not they are a uniformly recognized tender.
Paper Currency is perhaps the most common type of money today. However goods such as gold or silver retain the essential properties of money.
Before Money
Prior to the introduction of money, barter was the only way to exchange goods. Bartering has several problems, most notably timing constraints. If you wish to trade pigs for wheat, you can only do this when the pigs and wheat are both available at the same time and place - and without proper storage that may be a very brief time. With a trade standard like gold, you can sell your pigs at the "best time" and take the coins. You can then use that gold to buy wheat when the harvest comes in. Thus the use of money makes all commodities become more liquid.
Where trade is common, barter systems usually lead quite rapidly to the emergence of several key goods with monetary properties. In the early British colony of New South Wales in Australia, rum emerged quite soon after settlement as the most monetary of goods. When a nation is without a fiat currency system it is quite common for the fiat currency of a neighbouring nation to emerge as the dominant monetary good. In some prisons where conventional money is prohibited it is quite common for goods such as cigarettes to take on a monetary quality.
Early systems, Commodity Money
The first instances of money were objects which were useful for their intrinsic value. This was known as commodity money and included any commonly-available commodity that has intrinsic value; historical examples include pigs, rare seashells, whale's teeth, and (often) cattle.
Even in the industrialised world, in absence of other types of money, people have occasionally used commodities like tobacco as money. This last happened on a wide scale after World War II when cigarettes became used unofficially in Europe, in parallel with other currencies, for a short time.
Another example of "commodity money" is shell money in the Solomon Islands. Shells are painstakingly chipped into rough circles, filed down, and threaded onto large necklaces, which are then used during marriage proposals; for instance, a father may charge twenty shell money necklaces for his daughter's hand in marriage.
Once a commodity becomes used as money, it takes on a value that is often a bit different from what the commodity is intrinsically worth or useful for. Being able to use something as money in a society adds an extra use to it, and so adds value to it. This extra use is a convention of society, and how extensive the use of money is within the society will affect the value of the monetary commodity. So although commodity money is real, it should not be seen as having a fixed value in absolute terms. Its value is still socially determined to a large extent. A prime example is gold, which has been valued differently by many different societies, but perhaps none valued it more than those who used it as money. Fluctuations in the value of commodity money can be strongly influenced by supply and demand whether current or predicted (i.e. if you know the local gold mine is about to run out of ore, the price of gold will go up in anticipation of a shortage).
Money can be anything that the parties agree is tradable, but the usability of a particular sort of money varies widely. Desirable features of a good basis for money include being able to be stored for long periods of time, dense so it can be carried around easily, and difficult to find on its own so that it is actually worth something. Again, supply and demand play a key role in determining value. When governments print more banknotes, they are increasing the supply of money without any underlying increase in value. Therefore, the money becomes worth less than before the new banknotes were issued.
For these reasons metals like gold and silver have often been used for a commodity money. However these metals are also easily alloyed with a less expensive metal, making their value somewhat suspect.
Standardized Coinage
It was the discovery of the touchstone that paved the way for metal-based commodity money and coinage. Any soft metal can be tested for purity on a touchstone, allowing one to quickly calculate the total content of a particular metal in a lump. Gold is a soft metal, which is also hard to come by, dense, and storable. For these reasons gold as a money spread very quickly from Asia Minor where it first gained wide use, to the entire world.
Using such a system still required several steps and some math. The touchstone allowed you to estimate the amount of gold in an alloy, which was then multiplied by the weight to find the amount of gold alone in a lump.
To make this process easier, the concept of standard coinage was introduced. Coins were pre-weighed and pre-alloyed, so as long as you were aware of the origin of the coin, no use of the touchstone was required. Coins were typically minted by governments in a carefully protected process, and then stamped with an emblem that guaranteed the weight and value of the metal.
Although gold and silver were commonly used to mint coins, other metals could be used -- in the early seventeenth century Sweden lacked more precious metal and so produced "plate money" which were large slabs of copper approximately 50cm or more in length and width, appropriately stamped with indications of their value. The unwieldiness of this plate money no doubt contributed to Sweden becoming the first European country to issue paper currency, in 1661.
See also: Roman currency.
Representative Money
The system of commodity money in many instances evolved into a system of representative money. In this system, the money itself had no intrinsic value, but could be converted into commodities with intrinsic values.
Paper currency and non-precious coinage was backed by a government or bank's promise to redeem it for a given weight of precious metal, such as silver. This is the origin of the term "British Pound" for instance, it was a unit of money backed by a pound of sterling silver - hence the currency Pound Sterling.
For much of the nineteenth and twenieth centuries, many currencies were based on representative money through the use of the gold standard.
Fiat Money
Fiat money refers to money that is not backed by reserves of another commodity. The money itself is given value due to an authority such as a government acting like it has value. If a large enough organisation issues, uses, and accepts something as payment for bills or taxes, that in itself gives the money some value because certain payments can be made with it. Perhaps the value it has is not the same as the large organisation might like, but there is some value nevertheless.
Governments through history have often switched to forms of fiat money in times of need such as war, sometimes by suspending the service they provided of exchanging their money for gold, and other times by simply printing the money that they needed. It was seen over time that suspending the exchange of a currency for gold (or whatever the currency represented) had less effect on what could be bought with it than many people expected. Occasionally, governments also by simple decree changed the amount of gold they would supply in exchange for their notes, and this also often had less effect on what could be bought with the money than the change in the amount of gold should have implied.
In 1971 the US finally switched to fiat money indefinitely. At this point in time many of the economically developed country's currencies were fixed to the US dollar, and so this single step meant that much of the western world's currencies became fiat money based.
Credit Money
Credit money often exists in parallel with other money such as fiat money or commodity money, and from the users point of view is indistinguishable from it. Most of the western world's money is credit money derived from national fiat money currencies.
Strickly speaking a debt is not money, primarily because debt can not act as a unit of account. All debts are denominated in units of something external to the debt. Hence credit money is not strictly really money at all. However credit money is certainly acts as a money substitute when it comes to the other functions of money (medium of exchange and unit of account). As such the existence of credit money may dampen demand for the real money and in so doing alter the dynamics of moneys market value.
When paper money is merely an IOU for something such as gold, then the paper itself is not a unit of account but merely a convenient medium of exchange. Under a rigid gold-standard with convertiblity, paper currency merely a debt instrument. However, when paper money floats, its value is not defined by reference to an external unit of account. It is no longer a debt instrument but rather it becomes purely monetary and its value is a product of the dynamics of supply and demand. Typically a central bank forces supply and the private sector forces demand.
Credit money tends to arise as a byproduct of lending and borrowing money. The following example illustrates this.
Imagine you have deposited some gold coins in a bank vault. The bank might lend the coins to a second person based on a promise to pay equivalent coins back with a few extra at a time in the future. The second person can in the meantime use the coins normally as money. But you still own the coins, and you also could still use them - you could transfer their ownership to another person to pay for something you have bought by telling the bank to transfer them from your account to the other person's account. You might do this by writing a check. So in this simple example there are two people using the same coins as money at the same time. It's as if new money has been created by the act of lending. Taking it another step, if the second person spends the coins at a shop, and they end up being deposited back into the bank by the shopkeeper, the bank can lend them again. Now you and the shopkeeper can use the coins in the same way, by writing checks or the equivalent in this example, and whoever borrows the coins a second time can use the coins directly as money. So there are three people with financial use of the coins. This can go on with many people ending up simultaneously using the same coins financially, but for each extra user there is a promise to pay equivalent coins back. These arrangements where many people use the same money simultaneously is in many respects the same as if there was extra money. The extra money that there appears to be is known as credit money. It is in the controlling the amount of money a bank can lend that the Federal Reserve can set the money supply and change monetary policy. The credible promises to repay in a reasonable time give the extra money its value. It tends to exist in parallel with another form of money such as fiat money or commodity money, wherever banking style loans are used, and occurs as a by-product of lending. It could occur without banks, but banks provide a degree of stability to the whole process by taking and evaluating the risk involved in each loan.
During the Crusades in Europe, precious goods would be entrusted to the Catholic Church's Knights Templar, who effectively created a system of modern credit accounts. Over time this system grew into the credit money that we know today, where banks create money by approving loans - although the risk and reserve policies of each national central bank sets a limit on this, requiring banks to keep reserves of fiat money to back their deposits. Sometimes, as in the U.S.A. during the Great Depression or the Savings and Loan Scandal, trust in bank policies drops very low and government must intervene to keep the industry of credit in operation.
See also: Old Money, currency market, Local Exchange Trading Systems, Electronic money, List of numismatic topics
External links
- History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day by Glyn Davies
- A large collection of links
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Money."
Synonyms: MoneySynonyms: Currency, Paper money. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Property | Assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth; money; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and effects. |
Wealth | Income; capital, money; round sum; (treasure); mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado, bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi. |
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Screenplays | I need money. (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan) Why, I make more money than - than - than Calvin Coolidge, put together (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) Our house is more important than money. This neighborhood is more important than money (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner) He didn't know about money Matt (Red River; writing credit: Borden Chase) If you don't have my money then you are mine (Rounders; writing credit: David Levien and Brian Koppelman.) | |
Lyrics | Hey, dirty, baby I got your money (Got Your Money; performing artist: Ol' Dirty Bastard) Send lawyers, guns and money (Lawyers, Guns And Money; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon) Hear the money rustle (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC) Fiendin' for money and alcohol (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) I needed money of my own so I started slang'in (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) | |
Clever | Virtue has never been as respectable as money. (references; author: Mark Twain) A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it. (references; author: Bob Hope) Money is nice, yet nice is worth more. (references; author: unknown) How did a fool and his money get together? (references; author: unknown) If money could talk, it would say goodbye. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Easy Money (2002) Blood Money (2003) All You Need Is Money (1974) Money from Home (1973) Two for the Money (1972) | |
Song Titles | Don't Bet Money Honey (performing artist: Linda Scott) Money (performing artist: The Lovin' Spoonful) For the Love of Money (performing artist: O'Jays) Got Your Money (performing artist: Ol' Dirty Bastard) Money (performing artist: Pink Floyd) | |
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 | Native home with Yapese money stones indicating great wealth. Stones were mined on Palau and carried by outrigger canoe 300 miles. Money stones are quarried from stalactites in limestone caves. Credit: Small World. |  | Village chief's house with many money stones. Credit: Small World. |
 | Air Force members have become the targets of money lending scams out of Canada. The scams, in the form of classified advertisements in military newspapers advertised guaranteed loans, regardless of income or credit history, and charge a significant up-fro. |  | Fertile topsoil removed in the construction of a lake in central Missouri is stockpiled for later sale. A truckload of topsoil sells for $70 - $430 in various parts of the state. In this case, the landowner made enough money from the sale of topsoil to pa. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |
 | Brush and ink drawing of Mallards by Jay N. "Ding" Darling, a famous cartoonist and noted conservationist. The artist was chief of the Biological Survey, a precursor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, from 1934 to 1936. "Ding" conceived the idea of using duck stamps to raise money for the purchase of wetlands. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page Visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home. |  | Alicia plays like an idiot, said Lewis brutally : the money she's lost -- like a fool. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | With the very last spadeful taken from under the post, came the wallet and money. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Our banks are lending the Allies money now, but they are requiring that the money be spent here. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woodrow Wilson indicating the "common people" to "Wall Street" holding "money power" stick. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving service, life-boat stations, life-boats, surf-boats, etc.; but it is too bad to be obliged to waste so much money" / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Wasting money" by Mike Strange Commentary: "Close up of cigarette packet with a couple of english coins in the foreground." | "Money plant" by Nathan Jones Commentary: "Money plant aerial view." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Remember that credit is money. |
Canute "the Great" | I want no money raised by injustice. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Only sick music makes money today. |
Jean Racine | Without money honor is merely a disease. |
Lord Byron | Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. |
| Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. | |
Merit Crossword Puzzles | A fool and his money are invited places. |
Oscar Wilde | Time is waste of money. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Money often costs too much. |
Samuel Butler | The money men make lives after them. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | No constable or other bailiff of ours shall take corn or other provisions from anyone without immediately tendering money therefor, unless he can have postponement thereof by permission of the seller. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | Thus in the beginning all the world was America, and more so than that is now; for no such thing as money was any where known. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Where the risk had not attached, money paid by way of premium or otherwise shall be recoverable from the insurer. (reference) |
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The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | How much money does his father make? |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | The money of this island is heavy, gentlemen, but it costs little, as you may guess |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | So after a hectic week of believing that war was peace, that good was bad, that the moon was made of blue cheese, and that God needed a lot of money sent to a certain box number, the Monk started to believe that thirty-five percent of all tables were hermaphrodites, and then broke down |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was the money that they wanted |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And his father had given him two fiveshilling pieces for pocket money. |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Money is a powerful aphrodisiac |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Yes, he can do that until his crops fail one day and he has to borrow money from the bank |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | My remaining stock I carried with me, part in money, and part in goods, in hopes to improve my fortunes |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul |
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Health | You do not need to spend a lot of time or money on house cleaning activities. (references) | |
Putting money into the hands of family members raises concerns about the so-called "woodwork effect" (i.e., inducing demand). (references) | ||
Having sealants put on healthy teeth now will save you money in the long run by avoiding fillings, crowns, or caps used to fix decayed teeth. (references) | ||
Business | This money is then pooled. (references) | |
No license is required to change money. (references) | ||
That is why local companies often lose money. (references) | ||
Children | Central African Republic | Some girls enter prostitution to earn money for their families. (references) |
Georgia | The staff often diverted money and supplies provided to the orphanages for its own use. (references) | |
Haiti | Poorer families sometimes ration education money to pay school fees only for male children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Philippines | An estimated 7.4 million citizens work overseas and remit money home. (references) |
Guinea-Bissau | Some of the refugees earn money by selling handicrafts or through working in trades. (references) | |
Bangladesh | The attackers destroyed the journalist's camera, fax machine, and furniture, and stole money. (references) | |
Economic History | Morocco | Broad money (M2) grew by about 8 percent in 2000. (references) |
Norway | It is looking, however to get more for its money. (references) | |
Bulgaria | The 1996 Money Laundering Law also applies to bribes. (references) | |
Human Rights | Algeria | Violence by terrorist groups also is used to extort money. (references) |
Kazakhstan | The second firm appealed to the MVD to get their money back. (references) | |
Senegal | MFDC rebels sought to extort supplies and money from civilians. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Nicaragua | Second, drug trafficking and drug money on the Atlantic coast have become far more pervasive than elsewhere in the country. (references) |
Venezuela | Many of the Warao nevertheless return to Caracas, citing lack of jobs and money in the delta and their ability to earn approximately $175 (130,000 bolivars) per week in handouts in Caracas. (references) | |
Bangladesh | After their safe and peaceful release on March 17, one of the hostages told a newspaper reporter that one of his abductors had confided that the motive was not political but rather, they wanted money "for the welfare of Chakma people." On June 23, a Bengali truck driver in Khagrachhari District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts was murdered. (references) | |
Minorities | Israel and the occupied territories | Critics also pointed out that only half of the total sum represented newly allocated money. (references) |
Ghana | On May 20, the second Sunday of the ban, groups of young men attacked more charismatic churches, and stole musical equipment and money. (references) | |
Moldova | Official statistics put the Roma population at 11,600, although estimates from the OSCE and Roma NGO's range from 50,000 to 200,000. The Government announced in 2000 that it would allocate money from the budget to conduct a national census in 2001; however, no action had been taken by year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | Israel and the occupied territories | No money for the plan was disbursed during the year. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | Open market operations serve as the main policy tool to control money supply. (references) | |
Mozambique | The military continued to suffer from a lack of money and a long-term strategy. (references) | |
Political Rights | Malaysia | In July 1999, a government minister told Parliament that the money only was given to ruling coalition Members of Parliament because it came from the Government. (references) |
Gambia | Opposition political parties initially conceded defeat but later accused the ruling party of inducing voters with money and other materials to gain their support, which is unconstitutional. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | The law prohibits parties from funding their candidates' campaigns directly; parties must turn over all campaign money to the Central Election Commission, which then distributes the funds equally among the candidates. (references) | |
Trade | Mexico | Finally, the importer's bank sends the money to the exporter's bank. (references) |
Spain | They adjust their liquidity by interbank and money market transactions. (references) | |
Argentina | IBRD raises money through the sale of AAA-rated bonds in international capital markets. (references) | |
Travel | Honduras | All business visitors are urged to avoid carrying valuables or large sums of money. (references) |
Ukraine | It is illegal to exchange money outside of exchange points, and we strongly discourage doing so. (references) | |
Senegal | It is possible for U.S. visitors to receive wire transfer money via Western Union and Money Gram. (references) | |
Women | Morocco | She may offer her husband money to agree to a divorce (known as a khol'a divorce under Islamic law). (references) |
Iceland | The sale of sex for money is not illegal per se, but it is against the law for someone to engage in prostitution as his or her main source of income. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | In doing so, men are required to pay immediately an amount of money agreed upon at the time of the marriage, which serves as a one-time alimony payment. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Morocco | Traffickers approach their victims by offering them money. (references) |
Colombia | It does not receive money from, but cooperates with the Government. (references) | |
Congo | Such employment often is the only way a child or family can obtain money for food. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? Scopas Brune |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | Makes me wonder. When I see the figures on the amount of money that pornography films make a year, more than the motion picture business. |
Bill Maher | Oh, God. We could probably solve a lot of problems if we had that kind of money just from Woody Harrelson's house. |
Bono | Investment in the future. Help is a good word. And I know if Americans understand that their money is going to be spent well, they are ready to step up to the plate. |
Dennis Miller | Hey Yasser, stop buying explosives with European money and wearing a map of Israel on your headscarf. |
Jodie Foster | Well, critics that want to talk about how much money everybody makes. And, you know, who shouldn't wear pink. |
Robert Novak | We do have to take a break, and when we come back, we'll ask Congressman Dick Gephardt if the country needs more money for homeland security. |
Rosie O'Donnell | I am and I don't even necessarily feel rich, even though I know that am, but I have some guy who does my money, my brother-in-law, actually. |
Rush Limbaugh | Money is like water. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Surely if they had the right to appropriate money to make the road they have a right to appropriate it to preserve the road from ruin. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This portion of the community have neither time nor opportunity to watch the ebbs and flows of the money market. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Neither money nor technical assistance, however, can be our only weapon against poverty. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but the symptom. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | In Korea and again in Vietnam, the United States furnished most of the money, most of the arms, and most of the men to help the people of those countries defend their freedom against Communist aggression. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Recession and inflation are eroding the money of millions more. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Dairy farmers were losing money on every hundredweight of milk they produced. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | SDI funding is money wisely appropriated and money well spent. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Give me the line-item veto and I'll save the taxpayers money. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Again, I repeat, we're willing to spend more money. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Money" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "Money" is used about 37,327 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.97% | 37,315 | 219 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37,327 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "money" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Money | Last name | 3,000 | 4,641 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "money". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Casiphia | N/A | Biblical | Money |
| Shitrai | N/A | Biblical | Gatherer of money |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Money Channel Plc (The) | USA | ATS Money Systems, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "money": a bit of money ♦ a lot of money ♦ a mint of money ♦ a nice bit of money ♦ A piece of money ♦ a pot of money ♦ a roll of money ♦ a sight of money ♦ a sufficiency of money ♦ a sum of money ♦ abscond with the money ♦ abstract money ♦ accommodate smb. with money ♦ Acknowledgment money ♦ advance money ♦ advance smb. money ♦ amount of money ♦ available money ♦ bagfuls of money ♦ bags of money ♦ bank money ♦ be in the money ♦ be lousy with money ♦ be meal with one's money ♦ be out of money ♦ be pinched for money ♦ be pressed for money ♦ be pushed for money ♦ be rolling in money ♦ be wallowing in money ♦ beer money ♦ being without money ♦ big money ♦ black money ♦ blood money ♦ blue one's money ♦ bogus money ♦ borrowing of money from the bank ♦ broad money ♦ broken money ♦ call money ♦ call money rate ♦ Cap money ♦ caution money ♦ change money ♦ changing money ♦ chase after money ♦ cheap money ♦ cheap money policy ♦ Chimney money ♦ Cob money ♦ coin money ♦ collect money ♦ collect the money ♦ collection of money ♦ command of money ♦ compensation in money ♦ Conduct money ♦ conscience money ♦ counterfeit money ♦ counting of money ♦ creation of money ♦ current money ♦ danger money ♦ dear money ♦ demand money ♦ deposit money ♦ deposit money in an account ♦ depositing money ♦ dirty money ♦ down with your money ♦ draw money out of account ♦ draw some money ♦ Drink money ♦ earn big money ♦ earn money ♦ |