AMOUNT OF MONEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amount of money mean? 

• AMOUNT OF MONEY (noun)
  The noun AMOUNT OF MONEY has 1 sense:

1. a quantity of money

  Familiarity information: AMOUNT OF MONEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMOUNT OF MONEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quantity of money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money

Context example:

the amount he had in cash was insufficient

Hypernyms ("amount of money" is a kind of...):

assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amount of money"):

gain (the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating)

gross; receipts; revenue (the entire amount of income before any deductions are made)

cash surrender value (the amount that the insurance company will pay on a given life insurance policy if the policy is cancelled prior to the death of the insured)

contribution (an amount of money contributed)

deductible ((taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax))

defalcation (the sum of money that is misappropriated)

loss; red; red ink (the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue)

figure (an amount of money expressed numerically)

coverage; insurance coverage (the total amount and type of insurance carried)

advance; cash advance (an amount paid before it is earned)

payroll; paysheet (the total amount of money paid in wages)

peanuts (an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount)

purse (a sum of money offered as a prize)

purse (a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse)

 Context examples 

It came out in evidence that Colonel Moran and young Adair had, between them, won a considerable amount of money.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You could have considerations about money that are keeping you in the situation, but no amount of money is worth seeing your self-esteem continually hammered into the ground.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was more than a month's hard-earned wages, and it reduced his stock of money amazingly; but when he added the hundred dollars he was to receive from the Examiner to the four hundred and twenty dollars that was the least The Youth's Companion could pay him, he felt that he had reduced the perplexity the unwonted amount of money had caused him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)