<B>mondaine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a woman of the fashionable world or of society. </DL>
<A NAME="monday">
<B>Monday, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the second day of the week; the day after Sunday. (Abbr:) Mon. </DL>
<A NAME="mondayish">
<B>Mondayish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> affected with the indisposition typical of a Monday; exhausted or depressed. noun <B>Mondayishness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="mondaymorningquarterback">
<B>Monday morning quarterback,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a person who criticizes the errors of a football team after the game is over. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a person who offers advice on how to avoid an error after the error has been committed. </DL>
<A NAME="monde">
<B>monde, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the world. <DD><B> 2. </B>the world of society; the fashionable world. <DD><B> 3. </B>a particular social group or stratum. <BR> <I>Ex. haut monde.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mondieu">
<B>mon Dieu,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) my God (used as a mild interjection). </DL>
<A NAME="mondo">
<B>mondo, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) absolute, complete, unalloyed, or quintessential. <BR> <I>Ex. The film was so raw and assaultive in its mondo-trasho fashion ... that it made viewers feel it was made by those crude people onscreen (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>monensin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a product of fermentation resulting from the action of a species of streptomyces. Monensin is used as an additive to feed for beef cattle to inhibit the formation of certain gases which promotes the absorption of energy from feed. It is also noted for its ability to carry ions across lipid barriers. </DL>
<A NAME="moneran">
<B>moneran, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any plant or animal, such as bacteria and blue-green algae, that does not have a nucleus. </DL>
<A NAME="monetarily">
<B>monetarily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> as regards monetary affairs; from a monetary point of view; financially. </DL>
<A NAME="monetarism">
<B>monetarism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Economics.) the theory that the money supply of a country determines the shape of its economy. </DL>
<A NAME="monetarist">
<B>monetarist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who favors or advocates monetarism. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] there reveals himself as an uncompromising monetarist ... , insisting that "as John Stuart Mill once said, nothing is more important than money" (London Times).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of monetarists or monetarism. <BR> <I>Ex. Broadly, the monetarist school remains confident that a recovery cannot be far off, since the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve Board remains expansionary (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="monetary">
<B>monetary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of the money of a country; having to do with coinage or currency. <BR> <I>Ex. The American monetary system was formerly based on the gold standard.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of money; pecuniary. <BR> <I>Ex. a monetary reward.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="monetaryunit">
<B>monetary unit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the unit of a currency taken as the standard of comparative value for that currency, such as the dollar in the United States and Canada, and the pound in Great Britain. </DL>
<A NAME="monetization">
<B>monetization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of monetizing. </DL>
<A NAME="monetize">
<B>monetize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-tized,</B> <B>-tizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to legalize as money; assign a specified value to (silver, gold, or other metal) in the currency of a country. <DD><B> 2. </B>to coin into money. <BR> <I>Ex. to monetize gold.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="money">
<B>money, </B>noun, pl. <B>moneys</B> or <B>monies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>current coin; gold, silver, or other metal made into coins for use in buying and selling, or paper bills that represent gold, silver, or other assets issued by a government or authorized public authority. <BR> <I>Ex. an exhibit of money from different countries.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a particular form or denomination of money. <DD><B> 3. </B>a sum of money used for a particular purpose or belonging to a particular person. <BR> <I>Ex. Come back when your money's spent (Rudyard Kipling).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>wealth; property of any kind having value that can be expressed in terms of money. <BR> <I>Ex. He is a man of money. There is money in this contract. He agreed to pay the bill when certain moneys were realized. Wealth and money ... are, in common language, considered in every respect synonymous (Adam Smith).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>any object or material serving as a medium of exchange and a measure of value, such as checks drawn on a bank, or nuggets or the dust of a precious metal. <BR> <I>Ex. Money in the United States consists primarily of checking accounts in the nation's banks (Warren W. Shearer).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=money of account.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>coin money,</B> </I>(Informal.) to become rich; have a prospering business. <BR> <I>Ex. The owners of horses and mules were coining money, transporting people to the fairground (Charles Dudley Warner).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>for my money,</B> </I>(Informal.) for my choice; in my opinion; as I see it. <BR> <I>Ex. Miss Day is, for our money, the most fetching star in screen musicals today (Baltimore Sun).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in the money,</B> (Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>in a winning position in a contest, especially in first, second, or third place in a horse or dog race. </I> <I>Ex. That's too fast a pace for that kind of horse. She'll be lucky to finish in the money (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>having plenty of money. <BR> <I>Ex. Had it never occurred to him, as to most writers and artists who suddenly find themselves "in the money," to keep a reserve for tax purposes? (Sunday Telegram).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>make money,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to get money. </I> <I>Ex. He made money in the stock market. The War Office ought not to make money out of, any more than they should subsidize, the rifle clubs (Spectator).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to become rich. <BR> <I>Ex. He wanted to make money and retire young.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>money for jam,</B> </I>(British Slang.) something, especially money, that is very easily come by. <BR> <I>Ex. The task for the British salesman ought to be money for jam (Homer Bigart).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>out of the money,</B> </I>(Slang.) not in a winning position, especially in a horse or dog race. <BR> <I>Ex. Determine and Poona II ... finished out of the money (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="moneybag">
<B>moneybag, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bag for money. <BR>expr. <B>moneybags,</B> (Informal.) <DD><B> a. </B>a wealthy or avaricious person. <DD><B> b. </B>wealth; riches. </DL>
<A NAME="moneybelt">
<B>money belt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a belt with an inner flap or fold in which money can be secretly carried, usually under a person's clothing. </DL>
<A NAME="moneychanger">
<B>moneychanger, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person whose business it is to exchange money at a fixed or authorized rate, usually that of one country for that of another. <BR> <I>Ex. And Jesus went into the temple of God ... and overthrew the tables of the money changers (Matthew 21:12).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a banker or financier. </DL>
<A NAME="moneycowry">
<B>money cowry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the shell of a marine gastropod, used as money in parts of Asia and Africa. </DL>
<A NAME="moneycrop">
<B>money crop,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a cash crop. </DL>
<A NAME="moneyed">
<B>moneyed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having money; wealthy. <BR> <I>Ex. the not too gracious bounty of moneyed relatives (Thomas Carlyle).</I> (SYN) rich. <DD><B> 2. </B>consisting of orrepresenting money; derived from money. <BR> <I>Ex. moneyed resources.</I> <DD> Also, <B>monied.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="moneyer">
<B>moneyer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person authorized to coin money; minter. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) a banker or financier. <BR> <I>Ex. F. B. moves among moneyers and City nobs (Thackeray).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="moneyfund">
<B>money fund,</B> =money market fund.</DL>
<A NAME="moneygrubber">
<B>moneygrubber, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person sordidly devoted to making money or gaining wealth. <BR> <I>Ex. Emlen is a boor and an unscrupulous moneygrubber (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="moneygrubbing">
<B>moneygrubbing, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the amassing of money. <BR> <I>Ex. Schiller's plot shows ... the bourgeois world of social climbing and moneygrubbing (London Times).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> bent on amassing money. <BR> <I>Ex. She ... brought up her child to be "more cultured, less moneygrubbing, more spontaneous and creative" than she herself was brought up to be (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="moneylender">
<B>moneylender, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person whose business is lending money at interest. <BR> <I>Ex. Understandably, the spurned student becomes a rich and ruthless moneylender (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="moneylending">
<B>moneylending, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the lending of money at interest. <DD><I>adj. </I> having to do with or engaged in moneylending. <BR> <I>Ex. a moneylending institution.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="moneyless">
<B>moneyless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without money; impecunious. <BR> <I>Ex. moneyless public coffers.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="moneymachine">
<B>money machine,</B> =automatic teller.</DL>
<A NAME="moneymaker">
<B>money-maker</B> or <B>moneymaker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who is skilled in earning money or building a fortune; one who is well paid. <BR> <I>Ex. the country's No. 2 professional golf money-maker (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a thing which yields pecuniary profit. </DL>
