a lot of money
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1.0
- noun
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mucho dinero
- He saved a lot of money by buying a used car instead of a new one.
- spend a lot of money
- make a lot of money
- earn a lot of money
Furthermore, we've spent quite a lot of money trying to avoid this.
- Furthermore, we've spent quite a lot of money trying to avoid this.
- Here's the thing, that will not get you a lot of money very fast.
- And those properties lost me a lot of money, millions of dollars.
- Because he's paid a lot of money for these fragments.
- I learned to make a lot of money selling wallets.
- I have a lot of money in CCIV, Lucid.
- In fact, you can have a lot of money and still be poor.
- Politics are dirty, but a lot of money can be made in war.
- That ends up requiring a lot of money to take proper care of them.
- I've made a lot of money in a single day, right?
- What I think is I bet they make a lot of money and keep none.
- The idea being insurers pay a lot of money for covering drugs.
Examples
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You can make a lot of money as an artist.
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And international banks had lent a lot of money to Asian countries.
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I turned down a lot of money, but it worked out.
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It's going to make a lot of money, all right.
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And he knows he could get a lot of money off selling them.
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We are going to make a lot of money.
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Everybody knows this place brings in a lot of money on the weekend.
Fiction book (1994) -
I know you invested a lot of money in the film.
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That artifact is worth a lot of money.
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He's making a lot of money.
Synonyms
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1.6
A large amount of something, for example patience or money
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2.0
A large amount of money, especially as earnings or profit
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2.8
A very large amount of money
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4.2
A lot of money that someone earns or gets
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3.0
A lot of money
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'lot' (a large amount) combined with 'of' and 'money' yields 'a large amount of money'. This quantifier pattern is very common across languages and in English, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase a lot of money uses lot in the old sense of 'a large share' or 'many'. Think of a big pile of coins: a lot of money means 'a large amount of money'.