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Definition of Amount of money

1. Noun. A quantity of money. "The amount he had in cash was insufficient"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amount Of Money

Literary usage of Amount of money

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"... talked to them separately, with great'craft i ness, and so obtained by persuasion no small amount of money, though not nearly so much as a general aid ..."

2. Manual of Political Economy by Henry Fawcett (1888)
"It is almost self-evident that the amount of money which a nation needs must bear some proportion to its wealth. England annually produces and accumulates a ..."

3. The Principles of Money and Banking by Charles Arthur Conant (1905)
"It has not escaped attention, however, that a given amount of money buys much less at one time than another. Translated into terms of purchasing power, ..."

4. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"amount of money ANNUALLY AVAILABLE FOR TRADE, INDUSTRIAL, AND HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION. Trade or industrial schools or classes may receive benefits from the ..."

5. The Principles of Money by James Laurence Laughlin (1903)
"CHAPTER XI amount of money NEEDED BY A COUNTRY The complaints of particular persons arise, not from a deficiency of money or counters in circulation ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"The tendency, and actual result, of the use of cheques is to lessen the amount of money (whether notes or coin) which a bank has to keep on hand to meet the ..."

7. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"... hands on this occasion in lieu of the income they are obliged to part with, has no tendency to increase the ratio of the amount of money expended in the ..."

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