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monies noun

• plural form of money, as used in financial contexts.

money noun

• a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; coins and banknotes collectively.
• "I counted the money before putting it in my wallet"
Similar: cash, hard cash, ready money, the means, the wherewithal, funds, capital, finances, (filthy) lucre, banknotes, notes, paper money, coins, change, coin, coinage, silver, copper, currency, legal tender, sterling, bills, roll, dough, bread, loot, shekels, moolah, the necessary, wad, boodle, dibs, gelt, ducats, rhino, gravy, scratch, stuff, oof, folding money, dosh, brass, lolly, spondulicks, wonga, ackers, the ready, readies, dinero, greenbacks, simoleons, bucks, jack, mazuma, Oscar, splosh, green, tin, l.s.d., kale, rocks, shinplasters, specie, pelf,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French moneie, from Latin moneta ‘mint, money’, originally a title of the goddess Juno, in whose temple in Rome money was minted.


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