moneyless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English moneyeles, equivalent to money + -less.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]moneyless (comparative more moneyless, superlative most moneyless)
- Having no (or very little) money.
- Synonyms: penniless; destitute; see also Thesaurus:impoverished
- Antonyms: see Thesaurus:rich
- 1973 November 11, “The American Indians”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The result, say the few moneyless militants, is a divided national Indian leadership populated by Uncle Tomahawks, or “apples,” red on the outside, white on the inside.
- 2006 October 25, Stan Grossfeld, “Ex-Sox pitcher Stewart threw it all away when he succumbed to drugs”, in Boston.com[2]:
- "There's a lot of times I wished I would have died because I was pathetic," [Stewart] says matter of factly. "I guess I started digging a hole for myself and it got so bad I got homeless, moneyless, friendless. I just started covering myself up instead of climbing out of the hole."
- That does not use money as a means of exchange.
- Hyponyms: barter (when attributive), in-kind
- Near-synonym: nonmoney
- In eras when trade was largely by barter and taxes were usually paid in kind, moneyless transactions could constitute a large percentage of a national economy.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]having no or very little money
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that does not use money as a means of exchange
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See also
[edit]- cashless (in its usual sense, quite different from moneyless)