pecuniary

pe·cu·ni·ar·y

adjective

The definition of pecuniary is something related to money.

When you are interested in a job only because of the money, this is an example of a situation where you are driven by pecuniary interests.

Origin of pecuniary

Classical Latin pecuniarius from pecunia, money from pecus, cattle: see fee

adjective

Origin of pecuniary

Latin pecūniārius from pecūnia property, wealth ; see peku- in Indo-European roots.

Adjective

(not comparable)

Origin

From Latin pecÅ«niÄrius, from pecÅ«nia (“money").

pecuniary - Legal Definition

adj

Having to do with, or relating to, money.

His pecuniary troubles were now at an end.
It is remarkable that he gives the same pecuniary bequests to Winchester and New Colleges as to his own college of Magdalen, but the latter he made residuary devisee of all his lands.
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.
These settlements were of three kinds: (1) where the earlier inhabitants were extirpated or expatriated, and the settlers occupied the whole territory; (2) where the settlers occupied allotments in the midst of a conquered people; and (3) where the inhabitants gave up portions of land to settlers in return for certain pecuniary concessions.
During his three years of office as resident he was able to render not a few valuable services to the Company; but it is more important to observe that his name nowhere occurs in the official lists of those who derived pecuniary profit from the necessities and weakness of the native court.