(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(11) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the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.
Penurious
Definition:
(a.) Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.
(a.) Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
(a.) Destitute of money; suffering extreme want.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) On the one hand, he genuinely sees himself as the great liberator of the poor, the man who wept at Britain’s modern-day penury on Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate; on the other, he is the champion of policies that have driven some of the poorest people in society into despair.
(3) Then we sit back and marvel that 3.6m households are "one push from penury ", not because of unemployment, but because wages are too low.
(4) The British Red Cross charity said such individuals should be allowed temporary leave to remain and work if they meet Home Office requirements , sparing people from years living in penury.
(5) That’s because, just as the earlier bailouts went to the banks not the country , and troika-imposed austerity has brought penury and a debt explosion, these demands are really about power, not money.
(6) And then, finally, laid low by strokes, penury, depression and ill health, Biggs back in Britain.
(7) In Cyprus , now poised to become one of the biggest experiments in global financial history, people know that penury is just around the corner.
(8) A recession may actually appear to rescue poor people from penury, simply by dragging down the benchmark of typical pay.
(9) Our landlord could double the rent tomorrow, one of us could be summoned to work in Stockholm or Scotland or Stockport, or we might find ourselves in financial penury.
(10) There are relatively few signs of the aching poverty that afflicts other parts of Latin America, though a developing world debt crisis drove many to penury at the beginning of this century.
(11) They bid for the World Cup knowing how workers are treated in their country – workers are dying, suffering injury, mental tortureand penury while waiting for the "catalyst" to change their miserable reality.
(12) "These policies will bring penury to Greeks for generations to come.
(13) This is the Tories' brave new world, "compassionate" in giving, "conservative" in lowering taxes, a system that failed miserably in the past and will surely condemn millions to penury in the future.
(14) The Rev Dr John Jegasothy, a former Tamil refugee and now an Australian citizen, says life on a bridging visa is enforced penury and a poverty made worse because of its interminable nature.
(15) There is charity, and sometimes state and local relief, but many a chronic health condition goes untreated, and penury abounds .
(16) The relations between landlord and tenant were circumscribed by the indebtedness of the former and the penury of the latter.
(17) At the age of 40 he began to write seriously, living in near-penury for years while sustaining an eccentric lifestyle, wearing silver spectacles and glycerine gloves (in bed), while writing with a "magic" glass egg on his desk, and chain-smoking like a devil.
(18) They would say that Miliband is taking the party back to the left and the bad old days of inefficiency, trade union power and frequent strikes, that he doesn't like or understand business, and that Britain would slide from prosperity to penury.
(19) It was also on the road to penury, thanks to Mutharika’s increasingly eccentric economic policies and his alienation of the foreign donors upon which Malawi relies .
(20) Its single currency has brought penury to half a continent.