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Pecuniary vs Fiduciary - What's the difference?

pecuniary | fiduciary |

As adjectives the difference between pecuniary and fiduciary

is that pecuniary is of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial while fiduciary is related to trusts and trustees.

As a noun fiduciary is

one who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.

pecuniary

English

Adjective

(-)
  • 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.

    • fiduciary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (legal) Related to trusts and trustees.
    • a fiduciary contract
    a fiduciary duty
  • Pertaining to paper money whose value depends on public confidence or securities.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 63:
    • Indeed, currency would be more effective for not being gold and silver but fiduciary paper money.

    Noun

    (fiduciaries)
  • (legal) One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
  • (theology) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an antinomian.