Word Meanings - MONEY-MAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.

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• GETTABLE
  That may be obtained.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• COINSTANTANEOUS
  Happening at the same instant. C. Darwin.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• WEALTHINESS
  The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• WEALTHFUL
  Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• GOVERNING
  Requiring a particular case. (more info) 1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. Jay.
• MOTIVE
  The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is (more info) 1. That which moves; a mover. Shak. 2. That
• GOVERNANTE
  A governess. Sir W. Scott.
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• GOVERNABILITY
  Governableness.
• GETTERUP
  One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works. W. Irving.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• MANUMOTIVE
  Movable by hand.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• CONTRAFAGETTO
  The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• VERGETTE
  Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;