(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(11) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the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.
Shin
Definition:
(n.) The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
(n.) A fish plate for rails.
(v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.
(v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
(v. t.) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hardy has a 10in tattoo of Lee along his left shin.
(2) The 70-year-old describes a life of comfortable detachment from mainstream society, but with long periods in which he and his 74-year-old wife, Shin-yeol, are at the mercy of the elements.
(3) Rich, clear and with real depth, these are the prize awaiting anyone who picks up the shin, cheeks and tails before they're put in the mincer.
(4) Then there was his finish – it came off his shin but did anybody in Wales really care how he scored?
(5) The idea came to Kim, he said, when he heard that Seoul's repressive, militaristic Park regime had closed down Shin Films.
(6) Shin Dong-hyuk said he was tormented to see his father alive and speaking in the video released by Pyongyang in October.
(7) Tommy Banks, Bolton's left back, was exhausted by his efforts to halt Matthews, contracting cramp in his shins, and four times leaving the field for treatment in the final quarter hour.
(8) Sometimes resigned to his stay, Shin took comfort in his increasing material well-being, and in making movies again.
(9) 9.33pm BST 73 min: Pedro this time looks for Torres in behind – but his pass rattles straight into the shins of Francisco Silva.
(10) To know how CA125 proceeds from tumor cells into the circulation, a CA125-producing, ovarian-cancer-cell line (SHIN-3) was transplanted sub-cutaneously into nude mice.
(11) This puzzling confession, Shin writes, lingered in his mind as he drove in a Mercedes to the new office of Shin Films.
(12) Training for a marathon is a real challenge for your joints, tendons and cartilage, and so we tend to see regular distance runners developing problems with their knees, hips and shins,” says Vollaard.
(13) A spokesman for North Korea’s Association for Human Rights Studies said on Wednesday that Shin’s admissions “self-exposed” the flimsy foundations of efforts to censure Pyongyang for its rights record.
(14) 465 cases of exertion pain (18%) were located in the shin.
(15) Many pictures in the book – of families cutting cane, of men shinning up coconut trees – replicate the rural sights I see when I visit.
(16) The police station at Shin Kalay is not much to look at.
(17) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
(18) Rheograms of the shin have shown a decrease and asymmetry of the specific blood flow, less elasticity of arteries, less velocity of their blood filling in patients with malformations of the fibular bone.
(19) One of the South Korean investigators, Shin Sang-cheol, sacrificed his career to express his belief that the Cheonan had run aground in a tragic accident and with reports of evidence tampering circulating, even the South Korean public wasn't widely convinced of North Korean involvement: a survey conducted in Seoul found less than 33% blamed the DPRK.
(20) Lee Young-pyo executes an elaborate series of stepovers down the left - Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out - but just as he looks to have Maxi Pereira beaten, he lets the ball clank off his shin and out of play.