{"id":1397,"date":"2012-06-12T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2014-08-06T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:04:37","slug":"different-words-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/different-words-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Different words for &#8220;money&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Money.\u00a0 This is something most people want more of and at the same time it is something people are always taking out of their wallet and giving away&#8230;to buy things of course!\u00a0 In the United States there are six denominations* of paper money: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $100.\u00a0 The $2 bill is not commonly used in the United States, but it does exist.\u00a0 There are also six denominations of coin money in America: $0.01, $0.05, $0.10, $0.25, $0.50, and $1.00.\u00a0 Both the $0.50 and $1.00 coins are rarely used in the United States, though they do exist.\u00a0 There are many more than six ways to say the word money in American English though.\u00a0 In fact there may be as many as 100 different synonyms for the word money in American English.\u00a0 Below I have list eleven different words that can be used as synonyms for the word &#8220;money&#8221; in American English.\u00a0 Some of these words aren&#8217;t exact synonyms. That is, you couldn&#8217;t take the word money out of a sentence and replace it with one of these words, but these words all do refer to money.\u00a0 I have noted in parentheses next to a word if it has a special connotation.\u00a0 Many of these words are very commonly used in English and most are slang.\u00a0 If you listen to an American movie or a conversation between Americans I am sure you will hear the majority of these words before very long.<\/p>\n<p><em>Benjamins<\/em> (This term generally refers to $100 bills that have a picture of Benjamin Franklin on them.)<br \/>\n<em>bread<\/em><br \/>\n<em>coin<\/em> (Even though coins are metal money, this term is used to refer to money in general.)<br \/>\n<em>cash<\/em> (This word refers to actual money, not money on credit cards or checks.)<br \/>\n<em>dolla dolla bills<\/em><br \/>\n<em>dollars<\/em> (This terms generally refers to paper money.)<br \/>\n<em>dough<\/em><br \/>\n<em>greenbacks<\/em> (This term often refers to paper money but can be used to refer to American currency in general.)<br \/>\n<em>moolah<\/em><br \/>\n<em>mint<\/em><br \/>\n<em>smackers<\/em> (This word almost always only refers to paper money.)<\/p>\n<p>*denomination = a series of values in a system of currency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2012\/06\/cash.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Money.\u00a0 This is something most people want more of and at the same time it is something people are always taking out of their wallet and giving away&#8230;to buy things of course!\u00a0 In the United States there are six denominations* of paper money: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $100.\u00a0 The $2 bill is not&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/different-words-for-money\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":1399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,135370],"tags":[218731,218735,30,21673,2021,218738,218737,218739,218740,218741,105,218732,218742],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-english-vocabulary","tag-american-money","tag-benjamins","tag-bread","tag-cash","tag-coin","tag-dolla-dolla-bills","tag-dollars","tag-dough","tag-greenbacks","tag-mint","tag-money","tag-moolah","tag-smackers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}