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Definition: Paper Money |
Paper MoneyNoun1. Currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Finance | Money which owes its acceptability to public trust; the intrinsic value of such money, e. g. bank notes, is usually nil, or very much lower than the normal value ; coins or notes which are not worth much as a paper or metal, but are said by the government to have a value. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Paper MoneySynonyms: folding money (n), paper currency (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Money | 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, hundi, shinplaster. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Paper Money |
| English words defined with "paper money": bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, billfold, buck ♦ clam ♦ dollar, dollar bill ♦ Federal Reserve note ♦ government note, greenback, Greenback Party, Greenbacker ♦ Hard money ♦ Inflationist, irredeemable ♦ note, notecase ♦ one dollar bill ♦ paperhanger, pocketbook ♦ shinplaster, Soft money ♦ wallet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "paper money": CHANGE PERSON, coin teller, COIN-COUNTER-AND-WRAPPER, coin-machine operator, CURRENCY COUNTER, currency-machine operator ♦ falsification of money ♦ Malagrowther. (references) |
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| Paper money being shuffled in a counting manner. | |
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Economic History | Afghanistan | Afghanistan embarked on a modest economic development program in the 1930s. The government founded banks; introduced paper money; established a university; expanded primary, secondary, and technical schools; and sent students abroad for education. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "paper money"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | éˆ"票 (abill), éˆ" (money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bankovky (paper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pengeseddel (bank note, banknote, bank-note), papirpenge (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, soft money), sedler og skillemønt (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, soft money), sedler og mønt (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, soft money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | papiergeld (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, soft money), fiduciair geld (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, soft money), chartaal geld (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, notes and coins, paper currency, soft money), bankbiljetten (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, soft money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seteliraha (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, soft money), paperiraha (paper currency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | papier-monnaie (paper currency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Papierwährung (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, soft money), Papiergeld (banknotes, rag money), Notenumlauf (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, note circulation, note issue, notes in issue, paper currency, soft money), fiduziarisches Geld (bank notes, bills, fiduciary currency, fiduciary money, flat money, inconvertible money, paper currency, soft money), Bargeld (cash, hardcash, ready cash), Banknoten (banknotes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χαÏτονόμισμα (bank note, banknote, bill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | papÃrpénz (fiat money, folding money, money, soft money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carta moneta (papermoney, rag money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 紙幣 (bills, notes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ã—ã¸ã„ (bills, exchange of diplomatic representatives, notes, private army), ã•㤠(butcher, counter for books, diminish, kill, murder, note, police, reduce, remain, slice off, split, spoil, stay, temple, volume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | argid pabyragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aperpay oneymay papel moeda (bank paper, currency, money, paper, paper currency). (various references) hârtie monedã, bani de hârtie (paper, paper currency). (various references) бумажные деньги (greenbacks, long greens, papercurrency, soft money). (various references) papel moneda (banknote paper, currency paper). (various references) sedlar (bills, currency, folding money, paper). (various references) kâğıt para (bank note, banknote, bill, flimsies, flimsy, folding money, note, paper, rag), banknot (bank note, banknote, bank-note, bill, flimsies, flimsy, treasury certificate, treasury note). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-n-o-p-p-r-y" | |
-2 letters: empyrean. | |
-3 letters: anymore, manrope, moneyer, pampero, paronym, prename, propane, propene, propman, propmen. | |
-4 letters: ampere, empery, enamor, eponym, mapper, maypop, meaner, moaner, mopery, mopper, moreen, napery, napper, opener, pamper, papery, pereon, popery, preamp, preman, premen, prepay, pyrene, pyrone, pyrope, rappee, rappen, rename, reopen, yapper, yeoman, yeomen. | |
-5 letters: ameer, anomy, apery, apron, arpen, emery, enema, enemy. | |
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