pecuniary - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • bequest: A pecuniary bequest which is a gift of a fixed sum of money in your Will.
  • legacy: A pecuniary legacy is a fixed sum of money.
  • embarrassment: Thus, almost at once, pecuniary embarrassments passed for ever out of his life.
  • motive: Such attempts at exclusion do not always directly arise through pecuniary motives.
  • valuation: This is obviously the case with the institutions mentioned, and it is equally true, tho perhaps less obviously, with pecuniary valuation.
  • loss: There would be no pecuniary loss, for you would get the price of the metal.

Modifying Another Word

  • only: I note that the register will include not only pecuniary interests but also non-pecuniary interests.

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