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Pecuniary
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Pecuniary
PECU'NIARY
,Adj.
1.
Relating to money; as pecuniary affairs or losses.2.
Consisting of money; as a pecuniary mulct or penalty.Definition 2024
pecuniary
pecuniary
English
Adjective
pecuniary (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
- 1858, Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne, Chapter IV:
- Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
- The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.
- 1858, Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne, Chapter IV:
Translations
of or relating to money