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Money Mon"ey, n.; pl. Moneys. [OE. moneie, OF. moneie, F. monnaie, fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. Moidore, Monetary.] 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin. [1913 Webster]

To prevent such abuses, . . . it has been found necessary . . . to affix a public stamp upon certain quantities of such particular metals, as were in those countries commonly made use of to purchase goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those public offices called mints. --A. Smith. [1913 Webster]

2. Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling. [1913 Webster]

3. Any article used as a medium of payment in financial transactions, such as checks drawn on checking accounts. [PJC]

4. (Economics) Any form of wealth which affects a person s propensity to spend, such as checking accounts or time deposits in banks, credit accounts, letters of credit, etc. Various aggregates of money in different forms are given different names, such as M-1, the total sum of all currency in circulation plus all money in demand deposit accounts (checking accounts). [PJC]

Note: Whatever, among barbarous nations, is used as a medium of effecting exchanges of property, and in the terms of which values are reckoned, as sheep, wampum, copper rings, quills of salt or of gold dust, shovel blades, etc., is, in common language, called their money. [1913 Webster]

4. In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money. [1913 Webster]

The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. --1 Tim vi. 10 (Rev. Ver. ). [1913 Webster]

{Money bill} (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue.

{Money broker}, a broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; -- called also {money changer}.

{Money cowrie} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of Cypr[ae]a (esp. {Cypr[ae]a moneta}) formerly much used as money by savage tribes. See Cowrie.

{Money of account}, a denomination of value used in keeping accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an equivalent coin; e. g., the mill is a money of account in the United States, but not a coin.

{Money order}, (a) an order for the payment of money; specifically, a government order for the payment of money, issued at one post office as payable at another; -- called also {postal money order}. (b) a similar order issued by a bank or other financial institution.

{Money scrivener}, a person who procures the loan of money to others. [Eng.]

{Money spider}, {Money spinner} (Zo["o]l.), a small spider; -- so called as being popularly supposed to indicate that the person upon whom it crawls will be fortunate in money matters.

{Money s worth}, a fair or full equivalent for the money which is paid.

{A piece of money}, a single coin.

{Ready money}, money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction; cash.

{plastic money}, credit cards, usually made out of plastic; also called plastic; as, put it on the plastic.

{To make money}, to gain or acquire money or property; to make a profit in dealings. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Money Mon"ey, v. t. To supply with money. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

to spanish

money [m?ni?] dinero
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to french

money [m?ni?] argent, monnaie
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money box [m?ni?b?ks] caisse
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money order [m?ni???d?r] mandat?poste
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to deutch

money [m?ni?] Geld
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money bag [m?ni?bæg] Geldtasche
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money box [m?ni?b?ks] Sparbüchse
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money broker [m?ni?brouk?r] Geldmakler
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Money can t buy it. [m?ni?kæntb?i?it] Es ist für Geld nicht zu haben.
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money changer [m?ni?t?æ??r] Wechselautomat
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money forging [m?ni?f??d?i?] Falschmünzerei
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Money is no consideration. [m?ni?iznouk?nsid?rei??n] Geld spielt keine Rolle.
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Money is no object. [m?ni?iznou?bd?ekt] Geld spielt keine Rolle.
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money is tight [m?ni?iztait] Geld ist knapp
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money market [m?ni?m??kit] Geldmarkt
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money match [m?ni?mæt?] Geldheirat
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money matter [m?ni?mæt?r] Geldsache
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money office [m?ni??fis] Kassenabteilung
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money order [m?ni???d?r] Geldbrief, Postanweisung
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money transaction [m?ni?trænzæk??n] Geldgeschäft
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to italian

money denaro, soldi
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to latin

money [m?ni?] æs; pecunia
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money box [m?ni?b?ks] fiscus
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Bible Dictionary

Money

Uncointed money

It is well known that ancient nations thatwere without a coinage weighed the precious metals, apractice represented on the Egyptian monuments, on which goldand silver are shown to have been kept in the form of rings.We have no evidence of the use of coined money before thereturn from the Babylonian captivity; but silver was used formoney, in quantities determined by weight, at least as earlyas the time of Abraham; and its earliest mention is in thegeneric sense of the price paid for a slave. (genesis 17:13)The 1000 pieces of silver paid by Abimelech to Abraham,(genesis 20:16) and the 20 pieces of silver for which Josephwas sold to the Ishmaelites, (genesis 37:28) were probablyrings such as we see on the Egyptian monuments in the act ofbeing weighed. In the first recorded transaction of commerce,the cave of Machpelah is purchased by Abraham for 400 shekelsof silver. The shekel weight of silver was the unit of valuethrough the whole age of Hebrew history, down to theBabylonian captivity.

Coined money

After the captivity we have the earliestmention of coined money, in allusion, as might have beenexpected, to the Persian coinage, the gold daric (authorizedversion dram). (ezra 2:69; 8:27; nehemiah 7:70,71,72)[[883]Daric] No native Jewish coinage appears to have existedtill Antiochus VII. Sidetes granted Simon Maccabaeus thelicense to coin money, B.C. 140; and it is now generallyagreed that the oldest Jewish silver coins belong to thisperiod. They are shekels and half-shekels, of the weight of220 and 110 grains. With this silver there was associated acopper coinage. The abundant money of Herod the Great, whichis of a thoroughly Greek character, and of copper only, seemsto have been a continuation of the copper coinage of theMaccabees, with some adaptation to the Roman standard. In themoney of the New Testament we see the native copper coinageside by side with the Graeco-Roman copper, silver and gold.(the first coined money mentioned in the bible refers to thepersian coinage, (1 chronicles 29:7; ezra 2:69) andtranslated dram . It is the Persian daric, a gold coin worthabout .50. The coins mentioned by the evangelists, and firstthose of silver, are the following: The stater, (matthew17:24-27) called piece of money, was a Roman coin equal tofour drachmas. It was worth 55 to 60 cents, and is of aboutthe same value as the Jewish stater, or coined shekel. Thedenarius, or Roman penny, as well as the Greek drachma, thenof about the same weight, are spoken of as current coins.(matthew 22:15-21; luke 20:19-25) They were worth about 15cents. Of copper coins the farthing and its half, the mite,are spoken of, and these probably formed the chief nativecurrency. (the roman farthing (quadrans) was a brass coinworth .375 of a cent. The Greek farthing (as or assarion) wasworth four Roman farthings, i.e. about one cent and a half. Amite was half a farthing, and therefore was worth abouttwo-tenths of a cent if the half of the Roman farthing, andabout 2 cents if the half of the Greek farthing. See table ofJewish weights and measures