🍀 A good luck gift 💵 First money received 🎁 To give a gift

hansel

9.9

The first money a person or business receives when they start trading

noun

Archaic

: primer ingreso

The shop owner received his first hansel today.

Examples

He framed the first coin as his hansel to remember the start of his career.
The baker was delighted with the hansel he received on the opening morning.
Traditionally, shopkeepers would cherish their hansel as a sign of good luck for the business.
A successful hansel can lead to a prosperous business.
The baker was delighted with the hansel he received on the opening morning.
Traditionally, shopkeepers would cherish their hansel as a sign of good luck for the business.
He framed the first coin as his hansel to remember the start of his career.

Antonyms

failure

710 1.3

Not reaching what was planned or expected

loss

313 2.1

Money lost by a business or person

Surface Forms

hansel singular

hansels plural

Etymology

Hansel comes from an old idea about the hand, meaning 'into the hand', so a hansel was the first coin or sale handed over when a shop opened and was kept as a sign of good luck.