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Money

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.

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Appropriation 76% connected

The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special…

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Boodle 76% connected

The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

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Bread 76% connected

To spread.

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Bundle 76% connected

A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; a…

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Cabbage 76% connected

An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The caul…

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Dough 76% connected

Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

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Fund 76% connected

An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

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Gelt 76% connected

Trubute, tax.

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Kale 76% connected

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.

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Lettuce 76% connected

A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactu…

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Loot 76% connected

The act of plundering.

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Lucre 76% connected

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

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Moolah 76% connected

Alt. of Moollah

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Pelf 76% connected

Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.

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Pile 76% connected

A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

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Scratch 76% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Shinplaster 76% connected

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.

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Sterling 76% connected

Same as Starling, 3.

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Sugar 76% connected

A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certa…

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Wampum 76% connected

Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.

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Currency 76% connected

A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.

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Wealth 76% connected

Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.

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Monetary 74% connected

Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary.

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Monetary 74% connected

Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary.

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Moneyer 74% connected

A person who deals in money; banker or broker.

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Moneyer 74% connected

A person who deals in money; banker or broker.

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