Vocabulary Unit 7: Money
Currency
(n) Coins and paper bills used as money or as a medium of exchange in a country
Quid
(n) Colloquial for a pound sterling (UK)
Buck
(n) Colloquial for dollar (USA)
Wealth
(n) Having a large amount of money or property
Cash
(n) Money in the form of coins or banknotes
Bill
(n) Money owed for goods or services (British English)
Money
(n) Something that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services
Debt
(n) Something that is owed or that one should pay to another
Pound Sterling
(n) The basic unit of money of the UK. Symbol: £
Salary
(n) The money paid for employee services
Penny
(n) Unit of money
Cost
(n/v) The price of something
Donation
(v) Cash or contribution with no expectation of return
Win
(v) To achieve something (money) by effort, hard work, or by competition or luck
Afford
(v) To be able to pay for something
Earn
(v) To gain or get in return for one's labor or service
Pay for something
(v) To give money in return for something else
Lend
(v) To give money on condition that it is returned
Owe
(v) To need to pay or repay money to a person, bank, etc.
Lose
(v) To suffer the taking away of something (money in this case)
Borrow
(v) To take money from a person or bank and agree to pay it back to them at a later time
Spend
(v) To waste money
Broke
(v) Without money
Save
(v) to set aside income for a period of time so that it can be used later
Poor
(adj) Having little or no money or means of support
Rich
(adj) Having wealth or great possessions
Banknote/ Note
(n) A ___ is paper currency (British English)
Cheque book
(n) A book containing blank cheques and issued by a bank to holders of cheque accounts
Cash machine
(n) A machine in or outside a bank, etc., from which you can get money from your bank account using a bank card
Dollar
(n) A paper money, silver coin, and monetary unit of the United States, equal to 100 cents. Symbol: $
Coin
(n) A piece of metal stamped and issued by a government as money
Bill
(n) A piece of paper money (American English)
Pence
(n) A plural for penny
Wallet
(n) A small folding case that holds paper money, credit cards, etc.
Credit card
(n) A small plastic card that you can use to buy goods and services and pay for them later
Fortune
(n) A very large amount of money
Poverty
(n) An insufficiency of material goods, monetary wealth, access to resources.
Till
(n) Cash draw of cash register
