Deeper Dive: money
Quotes

The lack of money is the root of all evil. Mark Twain

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will. Nelson Mandela

Do what you love and the money will follow. Marsha Sinetar

Lyrics

money, get away
You get a good job with good pay and you're okay
money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash

money, it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today

Money - Pink Floyd

Collocations

be in the money
be right on the money
the best (something) that money can buy
for my money
get your money’s worth
have money to burn
have more money than sense
someone isn’t made of money
money is no object
money talks
put your money where your mouth is
spend money like water
throw your money around

money noun [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.
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.
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.

☞ 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.

4. In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. 1 Tim vi. 10 (Rev. Ver. ).
Mon′ey transitive verb To supply with money. [Obs.]



-- Webster's unabridged 1913





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