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Assets vs Pelf - What's the difference?

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Assets is a related term of pelf.


As nouns the difference between assets and pelf

is that assets is while pelf is money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre).

assets

English

Noun

(head)
  • English plurals
  • (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
    • His assets are much greater than his liabilities.
  • (legal) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
  • Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.

    • pelf

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre)
  • * 1906 , Frederick Tatham, Life of Blake'' in Archibald George Blomefield Russell (ed.), ''The Letters of William Blake :
    • But, sighing after his fancies and visionary pursuits, he rebelled and fled fifty miles away for refuge from the lace caps and powdered wigs of his priggish sitters, and resumed his quaint dreams and immeasurable phantasies, never more to forsake them for pelf and portraiture.
  • * February 20, 2000 , Nick Cohen, Without prejudice , The Observer:
    • . . . a master manipulator who will twist and dodge around the clock to keep the privileges of power and pelf .
  • * July 20, 1997 , Harriet P. Gross, Author roots her stories in Vietnam War , Dallas Morning News:
    • She writes about those she might have known first-hand: teenage girls cowering in bunkers . . . friends making promises they can never keep . . . rich folk fattened on wartime pelf , poor folk surviving by wit alone.
  • * April 27, 1987 , Ford S. Worthy, You're Probably Working Too Hard , Fortune:
    • In advertising, show business, and journalism, people work themselves to the nub for glitz and glory more than for pelf .
  • * October 1968 , Nicholas von Hoffman, The Class of '43 Is Puzzled , The Atlantic:
    • Some of the rich classmates were keeping their pelf to themselves.