pecuniary

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈkjuniɛɹi/

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pecuniary (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
   • 1858, Anthony Trollope, “Chapter IV”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     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.

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

     The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.

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