Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Monetary Relations

Money

Nouns
  • money, legal tender
  • money matters, money market
  • finance
  • accounts etc. Accounts
  • funds, treasure
  • capital, stock
  • assets etc. (property) Property
  • wealth etc. Wealth
  • supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash
  • mammon. [colloquial terms for money] dough, cabbage. money-like instruments, MExistence, MInexistence, sum, amount
  • balance, balance sheet
  • sum total
  • proceeds etc. (receipts) Receipt. currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, hard cash, cold cash
  • dollar, sterling coin
  • pounds shillings and pence
  • Ls.d.
  • pocket, breeches pocket, purse
  • money in hand, cash at hand
  • ready money, ready cash
  • slug [U.S.], wad [Slang] wad of bills [U.S.], wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough [Coll.]
  • rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink
  • bottom dollar, buzzard dollar
  • checks, dibs [Slang]. [specific types of currency] double eagle, eagle
  • Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency
  • Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate, gold certificate
  • long bit, short bit [U.S.]
  • moss, nickel, pile [Slang], pin money, quarter [U.S.], red cent, roanoke, rock [Slang]
  • seawan, seawant
  • thousand dollars, grand [Coll.]. [types of paper currency, U.S.] single, one-dollar bill
  • two-dollar bill
  • five-dollar bill, fiver [Coll.], fin [Coll.], Lincoln
  • ten-dollar bill, sawbuck
  • twenty-dollar bill, Jackson, double sawbuck
  • fifty-dollar bill
  • hundred-dollar bill, C-note. [types of U.S. coins: list] penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper [-]
  • half-dime, nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel, dime, disme, mercury dime, quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, Eisenhower dollar, Susan B. Anthony dollar. precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget. petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea
  • rouleau
  • wampum
  • good sum, round sum, lump sum
  • power of money, plum, lac of rupees. major coin, crown
  • minor coin. monetarist, monetary theory. [Science of coins] numismatics, chrysology. [coin scholar or collector] numismatist. paper money, greenback
  • major denomination, minor denomination
  • money order, postal money order, Post Office order
  • bank note
  • bond
  • bill, bill of exchange
  • order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat
  • blueback [U.S.], hundi, shinplaster [U.S.]. note, note of hand
  • promissory note, I O U
  • draft, check, cheque, back-dated check
  • negotiable order of withdrawal, NOW. remittance etc. (payment) Payment
  • credit etc. Credit
  • liability etc. Debt. drawer, drawee
  • obligor, obligee
  • moneyer, coiner. false money, bad money
  • base coin, flash note, slip, kite [Slang]
  • fancy stocks
  • multiplier effect. [variation in the value of currency] inflation, double-digit inflation, hyperinflation, erosion of the currency, debasement of the currency
  • deflation
  • stagflation. [relative value of two currencies] exchange rate, rate of exchange, floating exchange rates, fixed rates. [place to exchange currencies] currency counter, currency exchange, gold standard, silver standard. bank account, savings account, checking account, money market account, NOW account, time deposit, deposit, demand deposit, super NOW account
  • certificate of deposit, CD. [money symbols] $ [U.S.], US$ [U.S.]
  • Y
  • A$. [authorities controlling currency] Federal Reserve Bank [U.S.], central bank [U.S.]
  • Federal Reserve Board, board of governors of the Federal Reserve
  • Treasury Department
  • Secret Service. [place where money is manufactured] mint, bureau of engraving. [government profit in manufacturing money] seigniorage. [false money] counterfeit, funny money, bogus money, (falsehood) Deception. [cost of money] interest, interest rate, discount rate.
Verbs
  • amount to, come to, mount up to
  • touch the pocket
  • draw, draw upon
  • indorse etc. (security) Security
  • issue, utter
  • discount etc. Discount
  • back
  • demonetize, remonetize
  • fiscalize, monetize. circulate, be in circulation
  • be out of circulation. [manufacture currency] mint (coins), coin
  • print (paper currency). [vary the value of money] inflate, deflate
  • debase
  • devalue, revalue. [vary the amount of money] circulate, put in circulation
  • withdraw from circulation. [change the type of currency] exchange currencies, change money. charge interest
  • pay interest
  • lose interest.
Adjectives
  • monetary, pecuniary, crumenal, fiscal, financial, sumptuary, numismatic, numismatical
  • sterling
  • nummary.
Phrases
  • money rules the world, money makes the world go round
  • money is the mother's milk of politics" [Tip O'Neill]
  • money is the root of all evil
  • money isn't everything
  • as phony as a three-dollar bill
  • " don't take any wooden nickels."

Treasurer

Nouns
  • treasurer
  • bursar, bursary
  • purser, purse bearer
  • cash keeper, banker
  • depositary
  • questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller
  • cambist
  • money changer etc. (merchant) Merchant. financier. Secretary of the Treasury
  • Chancellor of the Exchequer, minister of finance.

Treasury

Nouns
  • treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper
  • cash register, kutcherry, bursary
  • strong box, strong hold, strong room
  • coffer
  • chest etc. (receptacle) Receptacle
  • safe
  • bank vault
  • depository etc. Store
  • till, tiller
  • purse
  • money bag, money box
  • pocket, breeches pocket. sinking fund
  • stocks
  • public stocks, public funds, public securities, parliamentary stocks, parliamentary funds, parliamentary securities
  • Consols
  • bonds.

Wealth

Nouns
  • wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence
  • good circumstances, easy circumstances
  • independence
  • competence etc. (sufficiency) Sufficiency
  • solvency. provision, livelihood, maintenance
  • alimony, dowry
  • means, resources, substance
  • property etc. Property
  • command of money. income etc. Receipt
  • capital, money
  • round sum etc. (treasure) Money
  • mint of money, mine of wealth, bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi. long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep pockets
  • Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre
  • loaves and fishes. rich man, moneyed man, warm man
  • man of substance
  • capitalist, millionaire, tippybob [Slang], Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens
  • Timocracy, Plutocracy
  • Danae.
Verbs
  • be rich etc. adj.
  • roll in wealth, roll in riches, wallow in wealth, wallow in riches. afford, well afford
  • command money, command a sum
  • make both ends meet, hold one's head above water. become rich etc. adj.
  • strike it rich
  • come into a sum of money, receive a windfall, receive an inheritance, hit the jackpot, win the lottery
  • fill one's pocket etc. (treasury) Treasury
  • feather one's nest, make a fortune
  • make money etc. (acquire) Acquisition. enrich, imburse. worship the golden calf, worship Mammon.
Adjectives
  • wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much
  • well to do, well off
  • warm
  • comfortable, well, well provided for. made of money
  • rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew
  • rolling in riches, rolling in wealth. flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin [Slang]
  • in funds, in cash, in full feather
  • solvent, pecunious, out of debt, in the black, all straight.
Phrases
  • love does much but money does everything
  • mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven" [Paradise Lost]

Poverty

Nouns
  • poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want
  • need, neediness
  • lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door. bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances
  • slender means, narrow means
  • straits
  • hand to mouth existence, low water, impecuniosity. beggary
  • mendicancy, mendicity
  • broken fortune, loss of fortune
  • insolvency etc. (nonpayment) Nonpayment. empty pocket, empty purse
  • light purse
  • beggarly account of empty boxes. [poor people] poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper, beggar, starveling
  • fakir, schnorrer
  • homeless person.
Verbs
  • be poor etc. adj.
  • want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish
  • go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin
  • not have a penny etc. (money) Money, not have a shot in one's locker
  • beg one's bread
  • run into debt etc. (debt) Debt. render poor etc. adj.
  • impoverish
  • reduce, reduce to poverty
  • pauperize, fleece, ruin, bring to the parish.
Adjectives
  • poor, indigent
  • poverty-stricken
  • badly off, poorly off, ill off
  • poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job
  • fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless
  • unportioned, unmoneyed
  • impecunious
  • out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash
  • without a rap, not worth a rap etc. (money) Money
  • out of pocket, hard up
  • out at elbows, out at heels
  • seedy, bare-footed
  • beggarly, beggared
  • destitute
  • fleeced, stripped
  • bereft, bereaved
  • reduced
  • homeless. in want etc. n.
  • needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened
  • put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts
  • unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet
  • embarrassed, under hatches
  • involved etc. (in debt) Debt
  • insolvent etc. (not paying) Nonpayment.
Phrases
  • a penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree" [Lady Nairne]
  • he that is down can fall no lower" [Butler]
  • steeped . . . in poverty to the very steeped . . . in poverty to the very lips" [Othello]
  • the short and simple annals of the poor" [Gray].

Credit

Nouns
  • credit, trust, tick, score, tally, account. letter of credit, circular note
  • duplicate
  • mortgage, lien, debenture, paper credit, floating capital
  • draft, securities. creditor, lender, lessor, mortgagee
  • dun
  • usurer. credit account, line of credit, open line of credit. credit card.
Verbs
  • keep an account with, run up an account with
  • intrust, credit, accredit. place to one's credit, credit to one's account, place to one's account
  • give credit, take credit
  • fly a kite.
Adjectives
  • crediting, credited
  • accredited.
Adverbs
  • on credit etc. n.
  • on account
  • to the account of, to the credit of

Debt

Nouns
  • debt, obligation, liability, indebtment, debit, score. bill
  • check
  • account (credit) Credit. arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency etc. (nonpayment) Nonpayment
  • bad debt. interest
  • premium
  • usance, usury
  • floating debt, floating capital. debtor, debitor
  • mortgagor
  • defaulter etc. Nonpayment
  • borrower.
Verbs
  • be in debt etc. adj.
  • owe
  • incur a debt, contract a debt etc. n.
  • run up a bill, run up a score, run up an account
  • go on tick
  • borrow etc. Borrowing
  • run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable
  • run up debts, run up bills (spend) Expenditure. answer for, go bail for. [notify a person of his indebtedness: ] bill, charge.
Adjectives
  • indebted
  • liable, chargeable, answerable for. in debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties
  • incumbered, involved
  • involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt
  • deeply involved
  • fast tied up
  • insolvent etc. (not paying) Nonpayment
  • minus, out of pocket. unpaid
  • unrequited, unrewarded
  • owing, due, in arrear, outstanding
  • past due.
Phrases
  • neither a borrower nor a lender be" [Hamlet].

Payment

Nouns
  • payment, defrayment
  • discharge
  • acquittance, quittance
  • settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement. acknowledgment, release
  • receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of all demands
  • voucher. salary, compensation, remuneration (reward) Reward. repayment, reimbursement, retribution
  • pay etc. (reward) Reward
  • money paid etc. (expenditure) Expenditure. ready money etc. (cash) Money
  • stake, remittance, installment. payer, liquidator etc. Treasurer. pay cash, pay cash on the barrelhead.
Verbs
  • pay, defray, make payment
  • paydown, pay on the nail, pay ready money, pay at sight, pay in advance
  • cash, honor a bill, acknowledge
  • redeem
  • pay in kind. pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing
  • pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs
  • do the needful
  • shell out, fork out
  • cough up [Coll.], fork over
  • come down with, come down with the dust
  • tickle the palm, grease the palm
  • expend etc. Expenditure
  • put down, lay down. discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of
  • foot the bill
  • account with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with
  • strike a balance
  • settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with
  • quit scores
  • wipe off old scores, clear off old scores
  • satisfy
  • pay in full
  • satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands
  • clear, liquidate
  • pay up, pay old debts. disgorge, make repayment
  • repay, refund, reimburse, retribute
  • make compensation etc. Compensation. pay by credit card, put it on the plastic.
Adjectives
  • paying etc.
  • paid etc. v.
  • owing nothing, out of debt, all straight
  • unowed, never indebted.
Adverbs
  • to the tune of
  • on the nail, money down.

Nonpayment

Nouns
  • nonpayment
  • default, defalcation
  • protest, repudiation
  • application of the sponge
  • whitewashing. insolvency, bankruptcy, failure
  • insufficiency etc. Insufficiency
  • run upon a bank
  • overdrawn account. waste paper bonds
  • dishonored bills, protested bills
  • bogus check, bogus cheque, rubber check. bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher, stag, defaulter, levanter.
Verbs
  • not pay etc. Payment
  • fail, break, stop payment
  • become insolvent, become bankrupt
  • be gazetted. protest, dishonor, repudiate, nullify, refuse payment. pay under protest
  • button up one's pockets, draw the purse strings
  • apply the sponge
  • pay over the left shoulder, get whitewashed
  • swindle etc. Stealing
  • run up bills, fly kites.
Adjectives
  • not paying, non-paying, non-performing
  • in debt etc. Debt
  • behindhand, in arrear, behind in payments, in arrears
  • beggared etc. (poor) Poverty
  • unable to make both ends meet, minus
  • worse than nothing
  • worthless. insolvent, bankrupt, in the gazette, gazetted. unpaid etc. (outstanding) Debt
  • gratis etc. Cheapness
  • unremunerated.

Expenditure

Nouns
  • expenditure, money going out
  • out goings, out lay
  • expenses, disbursement
  • prime cost etc. (price) Price
  • circulation
  • run upon a bank. payment etc. Payment [Money paid]
  • pay etc. (remuneration) Reward
  • bribe etc. Reward
  • fee, footing, garnish
  • subsidy
  • tribute
  • contingent, quota
  • donation etc. Giving. pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment. investment
  • purchase etc. Purchase.
Verbs
  • expend, spend
  • run through, get through
  • pay, disburse
  • ante, ante up
  • pony up [U.S.]
  • open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings
  • lay out, shell out [Slang], fork out [Slang], fork over
  • bleed
  • make up a sum, invest, sink money. run up debts, run up bills (debt) Debt. fee etc. (reward) Reward
  • pay one's way etc. (pay) Payment
  • subscribe etc. (give) Giving
  • subsidize.
Adjectives
  • expending, expended etc. v.
  • sumptuary.

Receipt

Nouns
  • receipt, value received, money coming in
  • income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds
  • gross receipts, net profit
  • earnings etc. (gain) Acquisition
  • accepta, avails. rent, rent roll
  • rental, rentage
  • rack-rent. premium, bonus
  • sweepstakes, tontine. pension, annuity
  • jointure etc. (property) Property
  • alimony, palimony [Coll.], pittance
  • emolument etc. (remuneration) Reward.
Verbs
  • receive etc. Receiving
  • take money
  • draw from, derive from
  • acquire etc. Acquisition
  • take etc. Taking. bring in, yield, afford, pay, return
  • accrue etc. (be received from) Receiving.
Adjectives
  • receiving, received etc. v.
  • profitable etc. (gainful) Acquisition.

Accounts

Nouns
  • accounts, accompts
  • commercial arithmetic, monetary arithmetic
  • statistics etc. (numeration) Numeration
  • money matters, finance, budget, bill, score, reckoning, account. books, account book, ledger
  • day book, cash book, pass book
  • journal
  • debtor and creditor account, cash account, running account
  • account current
  • balance, balance sheet
  • account settled, acquit, assets, expenditure, liabilities, outstanding accounts
  • profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, receipts. bookkeeping, accounting, double entry bookkeeping, reckoning. audit. [person who keeps accounts] accountant, auditor, actuary, bookkeeper, bean counter [Sarc.]
  • financier etc. Treasurer
  • accounting party
  • chartered accountant, certified accountant
  • accounting firm, auditing firm.
Verbs
  • keep accounts, enter, post, book, credit, debit, carry over
  • take stock
  • balance accounts, make up accounts, square accounts, settle accounts, wind up accounts, cast up accounts
  • make accounts square, square accounts. bring to book, tax, surcharge and falsify. audit, field audit
  • check the books, verify accounts. falsify an account, garble an account, cook an account, cook the books, doctor an account.
Adjectives
  • monetary etc. Money
  • accountable, accounting.

Price

Nouns
  • price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure
  • demand, damage
  • fare, hire, wages etc. (remuneration) Reward
  • value etc. Existence2-price">Price.1. dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy
  • abkari
  • capitation tax, poll tax
  • doomage [U.S.], likin
  • gabel, gabelle
  • gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff
  • brokerage, wharfage, freightage. bill etc. (account) Accounts
  • shot.
Verbs
  • bear a price, set a price, fix a price
  • appraise, assess, doom [U.S.], price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact, run up
  • distrain
  • run up a bill etc. (debt) Debt
  • have one's price
  • liquidate. amount to, come to, mount up to
  • stand one in. fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford.
Adjectives
  • priced etc. v.
  • to the tune of, ad valorem
  • dutiable
  • mercenary, venal.
Phrases
  • no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such thing as a free lunch. one may have it for

Value (intrinsic worth)

Nouns
  • worth, rate, value, intrinsic value, quality
  • par value. [estimated value] valuation, appraisal, assessment, appraisement. [value as estimated in a market] price current, market price, quotation
  • fair price, going price
  • what it will fetch etc. v.
  • what the market will bear. money's worth
  • penny's worth etc.
  • worth. cost (price) Price.
Verbs
  • value, esteem
  • appreciate. [estimate value] appraise, evaluate, assess.
Adjectives
  • valuable, estimable
  • worthwhile
  • worthy, full of worth. precious (expensive) Dearness.
Phrases
  • worth the price
  • worth a king's ransom
  • accountants who know the price of everything and the accountants who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Worthlessness

Nouns
  • worthlessness, valuelessness
  • lack of value
  • uselessness. [low value] cheapness, shoddiness
  • low quality, poor quality. [worthless item] trash, garbage.
Adjectives
  • worthless, valueless
  • useless. [of low value] cheap, shoddy
  • slapdash. inexpensive etc. Cheapness.
Phrases
  • not worth the paper it's printed on, not worth a sou.

Discount

Nouns
  • discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance
  • qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage
  • rebate, rebatement
  • backwardation, contango
  • salvage
  • tare and tret. sale, bargain
  • half price
  • price war. wholesale, wholesale price
  • dealer's price
  • trade price. coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon
  • store coupon, manufacturer's coupon
  • double coupon discount, triple coupon discount.
Verbs
  • discount, bate
  • abate, rebate
  • reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance
  • tax.
Adjectives
  • discounting etc. v..
Adverbs
  • at a discount, below par
  • at wholesale
  • have a friend in the business.

Dearness

Nouns
  • dearness etc. adj.
  • high price, famine price, fancy price
  • overcharge
  • extravagance
  • exorbitance, extortion
  • heavy pull upon the purse.
Verbs
  • be dear etc. adj.
  • cost much, cost a pretty penny
  • rise in price, look up. [demand a price in excess of value] overcharge, bleed, fleece, extort. [pay a price in excess of value] pay too much, pay through the nose, pay too dear for one's whistle, pay top dollar.
Adjectives
  • dear
  • high, high priced
  • of great price, expensive, costly, precious
  • worth a Jew's eye, dear bought. at a premium. not to be had, not to be had for love or money
  • beyond price, above price, priceless, of priceless value. [priced in excess of value] unreasonable, extravagant, exorbitant, extortionate
  • overpriced, more than it's woth.
Adverbs
  • dear, dearly
  • at great cost, heavy cost
Phrases
  • prices looking up
  • too high a price to pay, not worth it.

Cheapness

Nouns
  • cheapness, low price
  • depreciation
  • bargain
  • good penny worth etc.
  • snap [U.S.]. [Absence of charge] gratuity
  • free quarters, free seats, free admission, pass, free pass, free warren, give-away, freebee [Coll.]
  • run of one's teeth
  • nominal price, peppercorn rent
  • labor of love. drug in the market
  • deadhead.
Verbs
  • be cheap etc. adj.
  • cost little
  • come down in price, fall in price. buy for a mere nothing, buy for an old song
  • have one's money's worth.
Adjectives
  • cheap
  • low, low priced
  • moderate, reasonable
  • inexpensive, unexpensive
  • well worth the money, worth the money
  • good at the price, cheap at the price
  • dirt cheap, dog cheap
  • cheap, cheap as dirt, cheap and nasty
  • catchpenny
  • discounted etc. Discount. half-price, depreciated, unsalable. gratuitous, gratis, free, for nothing
  • costless, expenseless
  • without charge, not charged, untaxed
  • scotfree, shotfree, rent-free
  • free of cost, free of expense
  • honorary, unbought, unpaid.
Adverbs
  • for a mere song, for a song
  • at cost, at cost price, at prime cost, at a reduction

Liberality

Nouns
  • liberality, generosity, munificence
  • bounty, bounteousness, bountifulness
  • hospitality
  • charity etc. (beneficence) Benevolence.
Verbs
  • be liberal etc. adj.
  • spend freely, bleed freely
  • shower down upon
  • open one's purse strings etc. (disburse) Expenditure
  • spare no expense
Adjectives
  • liberal, free, generous
  • charitable etc. (beneficent) Benevolence
  • hospitable
  • bountiful, bounteous
  • handsome
  • unsparing, ungrudging
  • unselfish
  • open handed, free handed, full handed
  • open hearted, large hearted, free hearted
  • munificent, princely. overpaid.
Phrases
  • handsome is that handsome does" [Goldsmith].

Economy

Nouns
  • economy, frugality
  • thrift, thriftiness
  • care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment. savings
  • prevention of waste, save-all
  • cheese parings and candle ends
  • parsimony etc. Parsimony. cost-cutting, cost control.
Verbs
  • be economical etc. adj.
  • practice economy
  • economize, save
  • retrench, cut back expenses, cut expenses
  • cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way, pay as you go
  • husband etc. (lay by) Store. save money, invest money
  • put out to interest
  • provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day
  • feather one's nest
  • look after the main chance. cut costs.
Adjectives
  • economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing
  • parsimonious etc. Parsimony. underpaid.
Adverbs
  • sparingly etc. adj.

Greed (excessive desire)

Nouns
  • covetousness, ravenousness etc. adj.
  • venality, avidity, cupidity
  • acquisitiveness (acquisition) Acquisition
  • desire etc. Desire. [greed for money or material things] greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion. selfishness etc. Selfishness
  • craving, canine appetite, rapacity.
Verbs
  • covet, crave (desire) Desire
  • grasp
  • exact, extort.
Adjectives
  • greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping
  • rapacious
  • lickerish. greedy as a hog
  • overeager
  • voracious
  • ravenous, ravenous as a wolf
  • openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid
  • insatiable, insatiate
  • unquenchable, quenchless
  • omnivorous.

Prodigality

Nouns
  • prodigality, prodigence
  • unthriftiness, waste
  • profusion, profuseness
  • extravagance
  • squandering etc. v.
  • malversation. prodigal
  • spendthrift, waste thrift
  • losel, squanderer, locust
  • high roller [U.S.].
Verbs
  • be prodigal etc. adj.
  • squander, lavish, sow broadcast
  • pour forth like water
  • blow, blow in [Slang]
  • pay through the nose etc. (dear) Dearness
  • spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable
  • run out, run through
  • misspend
  • throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet
  • burn the candle at both ends
  • make ducks and drakes of one's money
  • fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money
  • pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
Adjectives
  • prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal
  • full-handed etc. (liberal) Liberality. penny wise and pound foolish.
Adverbs
  • with an unsparing hand
  • money burning a hole in one's pocket.
Phrases
  • spendthrift alike of money and of wit" [Cowper]
  • squandering wealth was his peculiar squandering wealth was his peculiar art" [Dryden].

Parsimony

Nouns
  • parsimony, parcity
  • parsimoniousness, stinginess etc. adj.
  • stint
  • illiberality, tenacity. avarice, greed etc. Existence7-economy">Economy.1. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer
  • Hessian [U.S.]
  • pinch fist, pinch penny.
Verbs
  • be parsimonious etc. adj.
  • grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint. drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain
  • cheapen, beat down
  • stop one hole in a sieve
  • have an itching palm, grasp, grab.
Adjectives
  • parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close
  • fast handed, close handed, strait handed
  • close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted
  • tight, sparing
  • chary
  • grudging, griping etc. v.
  • illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.
Adverbs
  • with a sparing hand.
Phrases
  • hoards after hoards his rising raptures hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill" [Goldsmith]
  • the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures" [Milton].