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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. |
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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. &hand;
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. |
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3. In general, wealth; property; as, he has much
money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money. |
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4. anything which serves as money, such as a
checking account, a credit account, or a letter of credit.one
who buys and sells bills of exchange;
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-- 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. |
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-- a TV, stereo or any thing transferable, especially
for a for a junkie. |
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-- Money bill (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue. |
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-- called also money changer. |
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-- Money broker, a broker who deals in different kinds
of money; |
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-- Money order, 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 |
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-- (b) a similar order issued by a bank |
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-- Money scrivener, a person who produces the loan of money to
others. |
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-- so called as being popularly supposed to indicate that the
person upon whom it crawls will be fortunate in money matters. |
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-- Money's worth, a fair or full equivalent for the money
which is paid. -- A piece of money, a single coin. |
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-- Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually paid,
at the time of a transaction; cash. |
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-- To make money, to gain or acquire money or property;
to make a profit in dealings. |
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-- Money supply; plastic money |
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As you can see above, money is not just a noun, but is a verb.
- a medium of exchange
in [Financial] transactions
- a medium of effecting exchanges of [property]
- in general, wealth
- anything which serves as money
- any thing transferable
- an order for the payment of [something]
- a fair or full equivalent for the money which is paid
- to gain or acquire |
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If I you will bear with me for a moment, [show me some of your
patience] I will explain this and why it is the root of all evil.
The expectation and demand of something valuable from someone
else. |