pecuniary
adjUK /pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/ · US /pəˈkjuniˌɛɹi/
Etymology From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”), itself from pecū (“cattle”) and thus related to fee.
1
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.1858, Anthony Trollope, “Chapter IV”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
- The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
- Derived terms
- nonpecuniary, pecuniarily, pecuniary unit
- Related terms
- pecunious