Roget's Thesaurus Part 102

[colloquial terms for money] dough, cabbage.

money-like instruments, M1, M2.

sum, amount; balance, balance sheet; sum total; proceeds &c.(receipts) 810.

currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece[Fr], hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds s.h.i.+llings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug [U.S.], wad* wad of bills[U.S.], wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough[coll]; rhino !, blunt !, dust !, mopus !, tin !, salt !, c.h.i.n.k !; argent comptant[Lat]; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar !; checks, dibs*[obs3].

[specific types of currency] double eagle, eagle; Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency; Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate [obsolete], gold certificate [obsolete]; long bit, short bit [U.S.]; moss, nickel, pile*, pin money, quarter [U.S.], red cent, roanoke[obs3], rock*; seawan[obs3], seawant[obs3]; thousand dollars, grand[coll.].

[types of paper currency, U.S.] single, one-dollar bill; two-dollar bill; five-dollar bill, fiver[coll.], fin [coll.], Lincoln; ten-dollar bill, sawbuck; twenty-dollar bill, Jackson, double sawbuck; fifty-dollar bill; hundred-dollar bill, C-note.

[types of U.S. coins: list] penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper[1700 -1900]; two-cent piece three-cent piece [Fr][obsolete][obsolete], half-dime[obsolete], nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel [obsolete], dime, disme !, mercury dime[obsolete], quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, Eisenhower dollar, Susan B.

Anthony dollar[obs3].

precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget.

petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit[obs3], stiver[obs3], rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, s.h.i.+lling, tester, groat, guinea; rouleau[obs3]; wampum; good sum, round sum, lump sum; power of money, plum, lac of rupees.

major coin, crown; minor coin.

monetarist, monetary theory.

[Science of coins] numismatics, chrysology[obs3].

[coin scholar or collector] numismatist.

paper money, greenback; major denomination, minor denomination; money order, postal money order, Post Office order; bank note; bond; bill, bill of exchange; order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, a.s.signat[obs3]; blueback [obs3][U.S.], hundi[obs3], s.h.i.+nplaster* [U.S.].

note, note of hand; promissory note, I O U; draft, check, cheque, back-dated check; negotiable order of withdrawal, NOW.

remittance &c.(payment) 807; credit &c.805; liability &c.806.

drawer, drawee[obs3]; obligor[obs3], obligee[obs3]; moneyer[obs3], coiner.

false money, bad money; base coin, flash note, slip , kite*; fancy stocks; Bank of Elegance.

argumentum ad crumenam[Lat].

letter of credit.

circulation, multiplier effect.

[variation in the value of currency] inflation, double-digit inflation, hyperinflation, erosion of the currency, debas.e.m.e.nt of the currency; deflation; stagflation.

[relative value of two currencies] exchange rate, rate of exchange, floating exchange rates, fixed rates.

[place to exchange currencies] currency counter, currency exchange, bureau de change [French].

gold-backed currency, gold standard, silver standard.

bank account, savings account, checking account, money market account, NOW account, time deposit, deposit, demand deposit, super NOW account; certificate of deposit, CD.

[money symbols] $, U.S. $, A$.

[authorities controlling currency, U.S] Federal Reserve Bank, central bank; Federal Reserve Board, board of governors of the Federal Reserve; Treasury Department; Secret Service.

[place where money is manufactured] mint, bureau of engraving.

[government profit in manufacturing money] seigniorage.

[false money] counterfeit, funny money, bogus money, (see falsehood) 545.

[cost of money] interest, interest rate, discount rate.

V. amount to, come to, mount up to; touch the pocket; draw, draw upon; indorse &c. (security) 771; issue, utter; discount &c. 813; back; demonetize, remonetize; fiscalize[obs3], monetize.

circulate, be in circulation; be out of circulation.

[manufacture currency] mint[coins], coin; print[paper currency].

[vary the value of money] inflate, deflate; debase; devalue, revalue.

[vary the amount of money] circulate, put in circulation; withdraw from circulation.

[change the type of currency] exchange currencies, change money.

charge interest; pay interest; lose interest.

Adj. monetary, pecuniary, crumenal , fiscal, financial, sumptuary, numismatic, numismatical[obs3]; sterling; nummary[obs3].

Phr. barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives [Lat][Ovid]; "but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels" [Tennyson]; Gelt regiert die Welt [German: money rules the world], money makes the world go round; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam [Lat][Cicero]; redet Geld so schweigt die Welt [German]; "money is the mother's milk of politics" [Tip O'Neill]; money is the root of all evil; money isn't everything; "as phony as a three-dollar bill"; "don't take any wooden nickels".

#801. Treasurer.-- N. treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer; cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor[obs3], receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cas.h.i.+er, teller; cambist[obs3]; money changer &c. (merchant) 797.

financier.

Secretary of the Treasury; Chancellor of the Exchequer, minister of finance.

#802. Treasury.-- N. treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper[obs3]; cash register, kutcherry[obs3], bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room; coffer; chest &c.(receptacle) 191; safe; bank vault; depository &c.

636; till, tiller; purse; money bag, money box; porte-monnaie[Fr].

purse strings; pocket, breeches pocket.

sinking fund; stocks; public stocks, public funds, public securities, parliamentary stocks, parliamentary funds, parliamentary securities; Consols, credit mobilier[Fr]; bonds.

#803. Wealth.-- N. wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence; good circ.u.mstances, easy circ.u.mstances; independence; competence &c. (sufficiency) 639; solvency.

provision, livelihood, maintenance; alimony, dowry; means, resources, substance; property &c. 780; command of money.

income &c. 810; capital, money; round sum &c. (treasure) 800; mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado[Sp], bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi.

long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep pockets; purse of Fortunatus[Lat]; embarras de richesses[Fr].

pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre; loaves and fishes !.

rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob*[obs3], Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens[obs3]; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae.

V. be rich &c. adj.; roll in wealth, roll in riches, wallow in wealth, wallow in riches.

afford, well afford; command money, command a sum; make both ends meet, hold one's head above water.

become rich &c. adj.; strike it rich; come into a sum of money, receive a windfall, receive an inheritance, hit the jackpot, win the lottery; fill one's pocket &c. (treasury) 802; feather one's nest, make a fortune; make money &c. (acquire) 775.

[transitive] enrich, imburse[obs3].

wors.h.i.+p the golden calf, wors.h.i.+p Mammon.

Adj. wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much; well to do, well off; warm; comfortable, well, well provided for.

made of money; rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew !; rolling in riches, rolling in wealth.

flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin*; in funds, in cash, in full feather; solvent, pecunious[obs3], out of debt, in the black, all straight.

Phr. one's s.h.i.+p coming in.

amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout [French: love does much but money does everything]; aurea rumpunt tecta quietem [Lat][Seneca]; magna servitus ist magna fortuna[Latin]; "mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven" [Paradise Lost]; opum furiata cupido [Lat][Ovid]; vera prosperita e non aver necessita [It]; wie gewonnen so zerronnen [German].

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#804. Poverty.-- N. poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, dest.i.tution, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door.

bad circ.u.mstances, poor circ.u.mstances, need circ.u.mstances, embarra.s.sed circ.u.mstances, reduced circ.u.mstances, straightened circ.u.mstances; slender means, narrow means; straits; hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi[obs3][Lat], low water, impecuniosity.

beggary; mendicancy, mendicity[obs3]; broken fortune, loss of fortune; insolvency &c. (nonpayment) 808.

empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty boxes.

[poor people] poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper[obs3], beggar, starveling; pauvre diable[Fr]; fakir !, schnorrer !; homeless person.

V. be poor &c. adj.; want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny &c. (money) 800, not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue[Fr]; run into debt &c. (debt) 806.

render poor &c. adj.; impoverish; reduce, reduce to poverty; pauperize, fleece, ruin, bring to the parish.

Adj. poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless[obs3], dowerless[obs3], moneyless[obs3], penniless; unportioned[obs3], unmoneyed[obs3]; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap &c.(money) 800; qui n'a pas le sou[Fr], out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; dest.i.tute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless.

in want &c. n.; needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened; put to one's s.h.i.+fts, put to one's last s.h.i.+fts; unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet; embarra.s.sed, under hatches; involved &c. (in debt) 806; insolvent &c. (not paying) 808.

Adv. in forma pauperis[Lat].

Phr. zonam perdidit[Lat]; "a penniless la.s.s wi' a lang pedigree" [Lady Nairne]; a pobreza no hay verguenza[Sp]; "he that is down can fall no lower" [Butler]; poca roba poco pensiero[It]; "steeped ... in poverty to the very lips" [Oth.e.l.lo]; "the short and simple annals of the poor" [Gray].

#805. Credit.-- N. credit, trust, tick, score, tally, account.

letter of credit, circular note; duplicate; mortgage, lien, debenture, paper credit, floating capital; draft, lettre de creance[Fr][obs3], securities.

creditor, lender, lessor, mortgagee; dun; usurer.

credit account, line of credit, open line of credit.

credit card.

V. keep an account with, run up an account with; intrust, credit, accredit.

place to one's credit, credit to one's account, place to one's account !; give credit, take credit; fly a kite !.

Adj. crediting, credited; accredited.

Adv. on credit &c. n.; on account; to the account of, to the credit of; a compte[Fr].

#806. Debt.-- N. debt, obligation, liability, indebtment[obs3], debit, score.

bill; check; account (credit) 805.

arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency &c.

(nonpayment) 808; bad debt.

interest; premium; usance[obs3], usury; floating debt, floating capital.

debtor, debitor[obs3]; mortgagor; defaulter &c. 808; borrower.