Pecuniary Definition

pĭ-kyo͝onē-ĕrē
adjective
Of or involving money.
Webster's New World
Involving a money penalty, or fine.
A pecuniary offense.
Webster's New World
Having to do with, or relating to, money.
Webster's New World Law

Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.

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Origin of Pecuniary

  • Latin pecūniārius from pecūnia property, wealth peku- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin pecÅ«niārius, from pecÅ«nia (“money").

    From Wiktionary

Pecuniary Sentence Examples

  • His pecuniary troubles were now at an end.

  • The doge assumed the title of duke of Dalmatia, and a great step was taken towards the supremacy of Venice in the Adriatic, which was essential to the free development of her commerce and also enabled her to reap the pecuniary advantages to be derived from the Crusades.

  • It was often a pecuniary advantage to the master to liberate his slave; he obtained a payment which enabled him to buy a substitute, a^ .d at the same time gained a client.

  • In 1840 he was appointed director of a Lehrerseminar, a post which relieved him from pecuniary troubles.

  • Yet his life was a long struggle with pecuniary difficulties.

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Words Starting With

PPEPEC

Words Ending With

YRYARY

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Words Starting With P and Ending With Y

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