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Adjective

pecuniary (not comparable)

  • Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
    • ✤ Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire’s loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.1
    • ✤ The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.2

Etymology

From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”), itself from pecū (“cattle”) and thus related to fee.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/
  • (US) IPA: /pəˈkjuniˌɛɹi/
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Footnotes

  1. 1858, Anthony Trollope, “Chapter IV”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC: ↩

  2. 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21: ↩

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