Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
     [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, 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

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