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pecuniary

[pi kyo̵̅o̅′nē er′ē]

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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.

pecuniary

adjective

of or involving money
involving a money penalty, or fine: a pecuniary offense

Origin of pecuniary

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

Related Forms:

pecuniarily
adverb

pecuniary

adjective

Of or relating to money: a pecuniary loss; pecuniary motives.
Requiring payment of money: a pecuniary offense.

Origin of pecuniary

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

pecuniary

Adjective

(not comparable)

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

Origin

From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”).

pecuniary - Legal Definition

adj

Having to do with, or relating to, money.

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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.
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.
His pecuniary affairs were embarrassed, partly from the liberality with which he had endowed his few surviving relatives.
He won the good-will of his employers by devoting himself to the improvement of their manufacturing business, and he kept his hands clean from the prevalent taint of pecuniary transactions with the nawab of the Carnatic. One fact of some interest is not generally known.
His pecuniary bargains with Shuja-ud-Dowlah, the nawab wazir of Oudh, stand on a different basis.

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