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English

Alternative forms

• monie (archaic)
• mony (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English money, moneie, moneye, borrowed from Old French moneie (“money”), from Latin mon?ta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. Displaced native Middle English schat (“money, treasure”) (from Old English s?eatt (“money, treasure, coin”)), Middle English feoh (“money, property”) (from Old English feoh (“money, property, cattle”), whence English fee). Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?ni/, [?m?ni]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?ni/
• Rhymes: -?ni
• Hyphenation: mon?ey

Noun

money (usually uncountable, plural monies or moneys) (plural used only in certain senses)

1. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
2. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.

3. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).

4. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
5. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
6. Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth

7. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
8. A person who funds an operation.

Synonyms

• beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ducats, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, means, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, simoleons, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga
• (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value):
• (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value):
• (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins):
• See also Thesaurus:money

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• mint

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: moni

Translations

Further reading

• money in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• money in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• money at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

• money on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• myeon, yenom

Middle English

Alternative forms

• moneie, moneye, monye, monaye, monee, moonay, mone, monnoye, monoye, monnoy, monny, mony, monney, monay, monoie, monie

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French moneie, from Latin mon?ta; doublet of mynt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?n?i?(?)/, /?mun?i?(?)/

Noun

money (uncountable)

1. money, currency
2. coinage, coin
3. wealth, fortune
4. bribe (immoral earnings)

Derived terms

• moneyles
• moneyour
• moneyen
• money-worthe
• monymaker

Descendants

• English: money
• Scots: money
• Yola: monie

References

• “monei(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Alternative forms

• baby-sit

Etymology

Back-formation from babysitter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?bi.s?t/

Verb

babysit (third-person singular simple present babysits, present participle babysitting, simple past and past participle babysat)

1. To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.

   My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.

   We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater.
2. (transitive, informal) To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much.

   He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done.

   • 2016, Christopher Vasey, Nazi Intelligence Operations in Non-Occupied Territories (page 175)

     It was observed by the FBI personnel assigned to “babysit” agent Tricycle that his egregiously excessive spending was causing unwanted attention […]

Translations

Danish

Verb

babysit

1. imperative of babysitte