pecuniary
2
8.7
- adjective
- /pɪˈkjuːniˌɛri/
- Formal
:
pecuniario
- Her decision to move was influenced by pecuniary considerations related to the cost of living.
- pecuniary incentives
- pecuniary gain
- pecuniary purposes
That's where the crime is because you are connecting the false statement to some form of pecuniary gain, monetary gain.
- That's where the crime is because you are connecting the false statement to some form of pecuniary gain, monetary gain.
- These authors were thinking about how accident law treats non pecuniary losses, which include losses from pain and suffering.
- So what we're going to get here is, as he's going to call it, the first appearance of non pecuniary elements in the lottery.
- They didn't like having tradespeople in because they might have a pecuniary interests that would lead them not to respect the truth.
Examples
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Under the Fair Dealing Rules, the FMA can bring a civil action for pecuniary penalties.
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In their respective worlds, they are high-profile successes, and their enormous public acclaim has been matched by pecuniary gain.
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And where do they say it is because of a selfish pecuniary interest?
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If I help you find her, will there be any, er, pecuniary rewards?
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Property rights affect outcomes not only through pecuniary incentives but also through their effect on the distribution of power.
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Pecuniary benefits are the discounted lifetime earnings students expect to receive from completing a degree.
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However, the pecuniary implications of commercial entanglements could not be ignored.
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The reported motivations among Hispanics for participating in the study were no more or less likely to be pecuniary.
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In short, pecuniary self-interest would motivate an assignee to obtain and recover the highest possible price.
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For one thing, pecuniary motives had driven science out of the laboratory into the blinding glare of publicity.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
205
4.4
About money, for example payments, costs, or value
Antonyms
Compounds
How Monetary
Surface Forms
Morphology
pecuniary = pecuni + ary
Although formed from the Latin combining form 'pecuni-' plus the productive suffix '-ary', the combining form is not a standalone English word and learners cannot transparently derive the meaning from visible English components.
Etymology
The word pecuniary comes from the Latin pecunia, which meant 'money', and that word comes from pecus, meaning 'cattle'. So you can remember pecuniary by thinking of a time when animals were used as money, which is why pecuniary means 'relating to money'.