What's the difference between dosh and money?

Dosh


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bearing in mind that the beaus will be queuing round the block to woo Gigi, perhaps she should bite the bullet and think of the dosh.
  • (2) The former Internazionale owner Massimo Moratti has been staring wistfully into the distance and wonder what might have been if he had not dished his dosh on the Special One rather than mere players.
  • (3) They may not have the hearts and minds, but they certainly have the dosh.
  • (4) Essentially a counter of how much dosh Gareth Bale has pocketed since signing for Real (if we take the time of the signing as 12.30pm).
  • (5) When one considers Nigel’s express concern that his new wife’s finances not be decimated, presumably realising that defending multiple murder charges costs a lot of dosh, Nigel’s early suicide makes more sense; pre-emptive action against a possible life sentence.
  • (6) I’m no betting man, but even if I was, I would not be quick to part with my dosh.
  • (7) 6.21pm BST 60 mins Apparently, some fan has put his house up for sale in an effort to raise some dosh to keep Ochoa at Ajaccio.
  • (8) They've got far less marketing dosh to play with too so they should be single-minded in making this the defining choice for the electorate.
  • (9) But that has not stopped people from giving their opinions freely about its character and disposition, referring to the area as Fort McMoney, the place where people go to make easy dosh, or as an outpost for displaced Newfoundlanders – and while many people from Newfoundland and the Maritimes live and work there, they make up only about 20% of the population.
  • (10) Even the promise that the NHS will earn the extra dosh by undertaking unprecedented reform will not obscure that key message to Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats.
  • (11) Has made all the right noises about carbon cuts, but could do with some dosh to make it happen.
  • (12) After a few Mills & Boon-like reluctant trysts, Gigi would tearfully admit to her father that she had fallen for her handsome prince and they would split the dosh, perhaps spending her half on an island to be used exclusively for lezzers, their quad bikes and tattoo parlours.
  • (13) Dosh 'n' Becks From Adidas to Armani, Sainsbury's to Pepsi and H&M to Police sunglasses, Beckham's brand has helped earn him a fortune of £165m, according to the latest Sunday Times rich list.
  • (14) But as one Treasury official said: "We are out of dosh.
  • (15) The still-fragile state of public finances, the fact that the NHS is going to get lots of extra money whoever is in power and the possibility of having to cut other Whitehall budgets more than already anticipated if the NHS receives even more dosh, all make the signing of that blank cheque politically very difficult.
  • (16) At Oxford, Crawford was a joint founder of the internationalist poetry magazine Verse and "cadged" poems off the likes of Edwin Morgan, Les Murray and Seamus Heaney, who enclosed £50 with his poem to help with production costs: "His generosity was not only in language, but also in actual dosh."
  • (17) Excuse me but I'm taking my dosh and getting out of here', I couldn't look myself in the face."

Money


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
  • (v. t.) To supply with money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (2) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
  • (3) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (4) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
  • (5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
  • (6) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
  • (7) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (8) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
  • (9) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
  • (10) It just means there won't be any money when another child is in need.
  • (11) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
  • (12) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
  • (13) For me, it would be to protect the young and vulnerable, to reduce crime, to improve health, to promote security and development, to provide good value for money and to protect.
  • (14) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
  • (15) "I have tried to borrow the money, but it was simply impossible."
  • (16) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
  • (17) The money will initially be sought from governments.
  • (18) They can go into the money markets: a highly male-dominated industry.
  • (19) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
  • (20) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.