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Abuse
verb · 78% connection
To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inheri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apply, wrongly, wrong, purpose, name.
Addition
noun · 78% connection
A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Wa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apply, wrongly, wrong, purpose, name.
Advance
verb · 78% connection
A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment before…
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Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
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Blackmail
noun · 78% connection
Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apply, wrongly, wrong, purpose, name.
Blood money
unknown · 78% connection
Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained…
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Bottomry
noun · 78% connection
A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apply, wrongly, wrong, purpose, name.
Brief
noun · 78% connection
A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or pr…
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Finance
noun · 78% connection
The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for fund…
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Fund
noun · 78% connection
The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid a…
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Give
noun · 78% connection
To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apply, wrongly, wrong, purpose, name.
Gresham's Law
noun · 78% connection
(economics) the principle that when two kinds of money having the same denominational value are in circulation the intrinsically more…
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Imprest
verb · 78% connection
A kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment.
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Investment
noun · 78% connection
The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apply, wrongly, wrong, purpose, name.
Lady
noun · 78% connection
A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apply, wrongly, wrong, purpose, name.
Mis-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, misc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apply, wrongly, wrong, purpose, name.
Misappropriate
verb · 78% connection
To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apply, wrongly, wrong, purpose, name.
Misdeal
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
To deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apply, wrongly, wrong, purpose, name.
