Money vs Debt - What's the difference?
money | debt |
A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
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, title= A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
Wealth.
An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
A person who funds an operation.
(as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money ; monetary.
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
* 1589 , (William Shakespeare), Henry IV, Part I , act 1, sc. 3,
* 1850 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), (The Scarlet Letter) , ch. 14,
The state or condition of owing something to another.
Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
* 1919 , (Upton Sinclair), Jimmie Higgins , ch. 15,
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, title= (legal) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
As nouns the difference between money and debt
is that money is a legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply while debt is an action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.money
English
(money)Noun
(wikipedia money)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.}}
Synonyms
* beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ends, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga * (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value) * (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value) * (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins) * See alsoDerived terms
* bad money * bank money * bar money * black money * blood money * bullet money * call money * cash money * caution money * checkbook money * coat money * conduct money * conscience money * cost of money * credit money * current money * deposit money * dirty money * dispatch money * door money * earnest money * easy money * even money * fiat money * folding money * foreign money * front money * full-bodied money * fun money * funny money * get one's money's worth * gun money * hard money * head money * hot money * house money * hush money * if money * in the money * key money * lawful money * mad money * maundy money * money belt * money broker * money changer * money changing * money chest * money clip * money cowrie * money crop * money doesn't grow on trees * money economy * money illusion * money laundering * moneymaker * money makes the world go round * money market * money of account * money order * money pit * money plant * money rate * money scrivener * money supply * money spider * money spinner * money's worth * Monopoly money * near-money * necessity money * neutral money * new money * old money * paper money * pin money * plastic money * plate money * play money * pocket money * power of money * price of money * prize money * protection money * push money * ready money * rent money * representative money * run for one's money * seed money * ship money * side money * silly money * sin money * sit down money * smart money * spending money * sound money * standard money * till money * time money * time is money * token money * tribute money * trophy money * up-front money * value for moneyStatistics
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English
(wikipedia debt)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt
- Of this proud king, who studies day and night
- To answer all the debt he owes to you
- Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
- This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
- Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- (Burrill)