Definition of Money

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Definition of Money

money

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.

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.

In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.

To supply with money.

Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms.

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Money Quotations

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
Zig Ziglar

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Marilyn Monroe

Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson

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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