pecuniary

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/ (UK)
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/pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/ (UK) · /pəˈkjuniˌɛɹi/ (US)

Definition of pecuniary

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
    “Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.”
    “The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.”

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Etymology

From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”), itself from pecū (“cattle”) and thus related to fee.

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