SUM OF MONEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sum of money mean? 

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

1. a quantity of money

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUM 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 ("sum 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 "sum 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 

I provided myself with a sum of money, together with a few jewels which had belonged to my mother, and departed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Milverton will send the letters to the Earl unless a large sum of money is paid him.

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

One would have expected to find a large sum of money in his pocket.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It's a large sum of money.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Or you may receive a substantial sum of money that will allow you to get started on your plans for your living situation.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A sum of money or other resources set aside for a specific purpose.

(Funding, NCI Thesaurus)

What qualifications were necessary in those who are to be created new lords: whether the humour of the prince, a sum of money to a court lady, or a design of strengthening a party opposite to the public interest, ever happened to be the motive in those advancements?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I took care that the right people saw them, and they made a nice little sum of money for us, returned May, who had overcome sundry small temptations, as well as Amy had, that day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Two years ago, having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of money through my poor father’s death, I determined to start in business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria Street.

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

It had very early occurred to her that a small sum of money might, perhaps, restore peace for ever on the sore subject of the silver knife, canvassed as it now was continually, and the riches which she was in possession of herself, her uncle having given her 10 pounds at parting, made her as able as she was willing to be generous.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)