MONEY SUPPLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does money supply mean? 

• MONEY SUPPLY (noun)
  The noun MONEY SUPPLY has 1 sense:

1. the total stock of money in the economy; currency held by the public plus money in accounts in banks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONEY SUPPLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The total stock of money in the economy; currency held by the public plus money in accounts in banks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

cash in hand; finances; funds; monetary resource; pecuniary resource (assets in the form of money)

Meronyms (parts of "money supply"):

money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)

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

M1 (a measure of the money supply; includes currency in circulation plus demand deposits or checking account balances)

M2 (a measure of the money supply; M1 plus net time deposits (other than large certificates of deposit))

M3 (a measure of the money supply; M2 plus deposits at institutions that are not banks (such as savings and loan associations))