money

ot noun

1. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
2. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). money supply;  money market
3. Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth He married money.
4. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.