[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, cashier,
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 circumstances, easy circumstances;
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


