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Definition of Money

Money

  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.
  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.
  3. In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
  4. To supply with money.
  5. Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms.

Money Quotations

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thomas Jefferson Quote
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas Jefferson

Margaret Walker Quote
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Money Translations

money in Afrikaans is geld
money in Danish is penge
money in Dutch is poen, geld
money in Finnish is raha
money in French is monnaie
money in German is Geld
money in Italian is denaro, soldi, quattrini
money in Latin is argentum, pecunia
money in Norwegian is penger
money in Portuguese is dinheiro
money in Spanish is pecunia, dinero
money in Swedish is pengar, penningar

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