noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a money box (= that children save money in )
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How much have you got in your money box?
a sum of money
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We urge people not to keep large sums of money in their houses.
appearance fee/money (= the money someone is paid to appear somewhere )
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He gave his appearance fee to charity.
be short of money/cash/funds
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Our libraries are short of funds.
beer money
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The job was never going to make me rich, but it kept me in beer money for a while.
big money
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Carter won big money in Vegas last year.
blood money
bribe money
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The mayor is accused of accepting bribe money.
campaign funds/money
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He was found guilty of using campaign funds illegally.
counterfeit currency/money etc
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counterfeit £10 notes
danger money
demanding money with menaces
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He was charged with demanding money with menaces.
earn good money (= earn a lot of money )
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You can earn good money working in London.
earn money
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I’d like to earn more money than I do now.
electronic money
extorted money
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Rebels extorted money from local villagers.
financial/money problems
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Our financial problems are over.
financial/money worries
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Bach’s last years were clouded by financial worries.
forget your keys/money/cigarettes etc
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Oh no, I’ve forgotten my wallet.
funny money
hard-earned money/cash etc
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Don’t be too quick to part with your hard-earned cash.
hush money
laundering...money
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He was jailed for laundering drug money .
lay money (that)
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I’d lay money that he will go on to play for England.
mad money
make money
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His one aim in life was to make money .
make pots of money
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He’s hoping to make pots of money from the deal.
money belt
money is tight/things are tight
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Money was tight and he needed a job badly.
money laundering
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The country is a major centre for money laundering.
money market
money order
money supply
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his policy of controlling the money supply and cutting public spending
money well spent (= a sensible way of spending money )
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The repairs cost a lot, but it’s money well spent .
new money
obtaining money by deception
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He was convicted of obtaining money by deception .
old money
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He invited both the smart set and Perth’s old money.
owe sb money/£10 etc
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I owe my brother $50.
paper money
pin money
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She helped her uncle out sometimes just to earn a bit of pin money.
pocket money
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How much pocket money do you get?
prize money
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The players are demanding an increase in prize money.
raise money
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a concert to raise money for charity
raise money/funds for charity
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A huge amount is raised for charity by the festival.
ransom money
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He’s got the ransom money .
receive payment/money/a pension etc
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They will be entitled to receive unemployment benefit.
redundancy money/pay
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He spent his redundancy money on a plot of land.
refunded...money
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I took the radio back, and they refunded my money .
reward money
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'Anyone who gives me the information that leads to an arrest will get the reward money,' he repeated
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seed money
spending money
spend...money
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I can’t afford to spend any more money this week.
the health/business/money etc aspect
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the health aspects of chemical accidents
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I’m not very interested in the business aspect.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Now he's been accepted, Mark's biggest problem is money .
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Like most major issues where big money is involved, neither party is exactly a profile in courage.
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The big money for a Lewis-Bruno fight will come from the paying audience.
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What emerges from that tainted oven will likely be a typical loaf of local politics leavened by big money .
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The big money has evidently been well spent.
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You look like big money now.
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There are enough big money players cut down in their prime to give the new boy nightmares.
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The proposed test program is inadequate to ensure the necessary reliability before we begin to spend big money on national missile defense.
extra
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Is there any extra money for classroom use through Compact?
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That need for extra money is still the primary reason most people get into our business today.
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Just how is the extra money injected into people's portfolios in the first place?
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They get the cash from the house and have extra spending money .
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Whatever he was doing with the extra money , he was not settling accounts with those he had defrauded.
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Who knows what extra money you will need to get you through the next crunch?
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Only then will the extra community care money be released - provided the forecast expenditure on institutional care is reasonably on course.
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And it was the county's responsibility to decide whether St Bede's and St Augustine's got extra money .
large
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They got engaged after he proposed and she lent him large sums of money .
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Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models.
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In addition, he was ordered to pay large sums of money to the government as compensation for his negligence.
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The majority of the speakers requested that large amounts of money be allocated for housing rehabilitation.
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Forest townships were compelled to pay the warden large sums of money if they did not attend Forest inquests at his summons.
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The immediate investment of a rather large sum of money for the meat supply for several months. 2.
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Retail and wholesale banks alike raise large sums of money on this market, and lend their surpluses there.
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In addition, that gigantic building requires large amounts of money simply for upkeep and maintenance.
public
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Even Libertarians, who advocate much less government, are happy to accept public campaign money .
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But it couldn't be privatised without a large injection of public money .
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For another $ 50 million to $ 85 million of public money , a retractable dome could be added, they said.
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Nearly £1 billion of public money and over £4 billion of private money has gone into Docklands since 1981.
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What fosters the Terrells' sizable contributions to public life is money , old money and vast money.
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There would be public money to provide union ballots on strikes and leadership changes.
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The actual implementation of these programs involves collection of revenues and disbursement of public money , budgeting, accounting, and purchasing.
short
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But some groups that are short of money may want the job for financial reasons.
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The program is expected to run short of money when an onslaught of baby boomers become eligible.
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But it seems that I can not rid myself of this fear of running short of money .
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Never desperately short of money , he was lucky in attracting funds and spent his money generously.
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Victim Support helps thousands of people every year, but the service is running desperately short of money .
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The report also proposes that it would be appropriate for political parties to publish accounts of how they spend their Short money .
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The choice of venue implied that Fowler-Troon wasn't short of money .
soft
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Both major parties raised soft money at a furious pace in 1995 and 1996, each gathering more than $ 100 million.
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Is your toilet paper honestly the softest money can buy?
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In theory, soft money is supposed to be used only for generic party activities and not to support specific candidates.
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Both major parties raised large amounts of soft money for use during the presidential campaign.
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Dole now backs a ban on PACs, soft money contributions and the use of dues to finance labor union donations.
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Of the soft money total, $ 2, 357, 259 went to the Republican party.
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I was sinking fast in the mire of soft money .
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The study covered soft money gifts to the national, House and Senate committees of each major party.
■ NOUN
back
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They were covered and got their money back .
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Only those who paid by credit card would be certain of getting their money back .
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Organisers - expecting 70,000 to turn up this weekend at Tatton Park in Cheshire - have offered ticket-holders their money back .
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Many companies offer a 30-day money back guarantee.
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Each one contains a money back voucher worth £5.00, valid against any purchase from Christopher Wray.
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Yes, we would like our money back .
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If share prices fall over that time, a safety net guarantees you will get your money back .
manager
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Still, money managers , analysts, and economists are taking their best educated guesses.
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He blames the market itself, and profit-taking by other money managers , for the stocks' decline.
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Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models.
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The Pittsburgh-based money manager oversees about $ 60 billion in investments.
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In the case of the second investor, our model reproduces the tax-based investment strategy offered by numerous money managers .
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Some individual money managers made news in 1995.
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Even corporate bonds, which in particular started the year out of favor among money managers , had a good year.
market
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The obverse of money market advances is money market deposits, and these work in the same way.
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Checks written against money market funds continue to earn interest until the check clears the fund.
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The sterling money market in London is the device used by banks and others to adjust their liquidity.
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Virtually all funds come to the bank at a cost, so these money market funds are no different in this respect.
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For larger corporations, direct participation in the money market may still be cost effective.
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Most years pocket money has kept well ahead of inflation, and this year is no exception.
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Carmine had a man who washed his pocket money in Ivory liquid to keep it germ-free.
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However, she must have a minimum of £12.65 pocket money .
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He earned pocket money by repairing furniture for neighbors and then trained as a patternmaker for a company that produced textile machines.
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Do they have to do anything to earn their pocket money ?
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In this school, there are people who could buy the school with pocket money .
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Giving extra pocket money for good work on a daily basis is far more effective.
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For Gates, this $ 150 million is known as pocket money .
prize
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The blunder on Melbourne's Sandown race track is likely to cost Charlie £12,000 in prize money .
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The teach pocketed $ 2, 500 in prize money .
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Four years ago seven leading men threatened to boycott the event because they considered the prize money too low.
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Her surviving crew members, rich with prize money , are unprepared, perhaps, for what lies ahead -- peace.
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He now competes for £10,000 prize money in the final.
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George, 50, had to pay £10 from his prize money at the annual leek show at Northallerton, North Yorks.
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Racing was transferred to the present site in Knavesmire in 1731 with prize money of £155 for a five day meeting.
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He left the bank and opened a portrait studio, using the prize money as capital.
supply
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Here, the recorded money supply falls while spending increases.
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The high drama at the Fed involves its decisions on interest rates and the money supply .
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If inflation is to be controlled, they maintain, then the money supply must be controlled.
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Since this is a money and banking book we focus on what happens to the interest rate when the money supply changes.
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This is where the monetarist assumption of an exogenous money supply plays such a vital role.
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Likewise, the Fed can shrink the money supply by selling the public a bond.
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How changes in money supply affect aggregate demand is a highly controversial issue.
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Generally, politicians believe that central bank officials are too stingy with the money supply and too concerned about inflation.
■ VERB
borrow
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They borrowed more money for living expenses, then the second mortgage of £16,000 from a company call Dorend.
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Shawn is discussing a want or need to borrow money .
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The benefit to X from borrowing the money interest-free from the trust is thus his savings in tax of £4,000.
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A growing country often needs to buy more than it sells and to borrow money for new projects and investment.
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Julekha Hajij and her husband have lost £13,000 after borrowing the money from a bank.
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Conceptually, leasing is similar to borrowing money to buy the asset.
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Later Seius borrowed additional money from Titius.
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Wood borrowed money from a Gallatin bank to purchase fifteen minutes of time on Nobles's show.
buy
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Reeves used the money to buy the best.
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He checks I got enough money to buy the string, and then I go off.
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The reason, Yunus discovered, was that she had to borrow money to buy the bamboo from a trader.
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The money was used to buy equipment for the garden.
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Some farmers made enough money to buy more land and survive drought years and stay in business.
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Graham's father actually gave him the money to buy it from Brixton, after we'd been there to see it.
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Conceptually, leasing is similar to borrowing money to buy the asset.
cost
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If you give credit two things will happen: it will cost you money and give you problems.
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When the card issuers learned that the gimmicks were costing them money , their idea of creative thinking kicked in.
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I don't know what good it did David in the long run because what it did was cost a lot of money .
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This means future defense procurement contracts would cost the government less money , defense officials say.
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There is only one solution and it costs money .
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That will cost you some money , but it beats letting the customer stew while an employee hunts for a supervisor.
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It was just costing them a lot of money in phone calls and train tickets to London.
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Care for the barking man would cost money , and where would that come from?
demand
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Cool pool: Cold swimmers demanded their money back at the new Ponteland Leisure Centre after claiming the water was too cold.
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Panhandlers always demanding money so they can sustain their lifestyles.
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It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions.
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Crane arrested the unarmed man, who is accused of giving a teller a note demanding money .
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Either they take food from markets without paying for it, or they demand money from you at roadblocks.
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Even the policeman on the corner demanding money did not subdue the cheerfulness of hope.
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The two men demanded money from Mr McErlean but he refused.
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Larios said he cooperated when the masked bandit demanded money , but feared he might be shot anyway.
earn
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After that I realised that - like anyone else - I had to go on earning the money .
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And few businesses have to be told to earn money rather than simply spending it.
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Present value: If you delay paying a bill, you can earn interest on the money in the meantime.
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He has to earn some money and bring that money home.
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Between school hours he earned money cleaning and mending clocks and watches for a local clock-maker.
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He earned money working in the prison kitchen, and used it to enroll in courses at Utah State College.
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I went on the game this time and earned a bit of money there, and I did chequebooks and cards.
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When they earned enough money , they would book passage around the Horn to California.
get
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We haven't got the money for much radiology anyway.
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Who gets the money could be complicated, say probate attorneys.
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He gets his money back as soon as all the units are sold.
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Davis, coming off an all-pro year, wants to get as much money as he can.
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Everything was waiting for you; for a start you could get money left to you in a will.
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Yeah: getting the money up front.
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But if things go wrong, how easy is it to complain and get your money back?
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The winner would get real money , for thousands of dollars of prize money were being put up.
give
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Mr Schwartz promised to tell if he gave Freddy any further money or clothes.
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She said not to give you any money .
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Stylish, well made clothes that are practical, and always give great value for money .
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Over the years Victor, Paquita and I all gave her money .
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On the other hand, if you report all to me it may be that I shall give you money .
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Some of the high-tech leaders, notably Doerr, gave money to Clinton and the Democrats in the last election.
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Another messenger tells of the death of a lord who gave a lot of money to the church.
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Aunt Ester give you more than money .
invest
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So long as it invested the money in buses, that was all right.
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So it makes sense not to invest a lot of money .
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Major record companies invest vast sums of money in new artists every year.
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Rowling and his son Robert invested much of the money in real estate, including hotels.
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You should sell some shares for cash and invest that money in other areas.
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Come to think of it, even Hillary Rodham Clinton could learn something from Alexander about how to invest her money .
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A mismatched, haphazard gang of pots looks terrible and it is worth investing some decent money in creating a cohesive style.
lend
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I do not expect my father to lend me money simply because he is a father.
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This eventually passed. l lent him some money for the last time.
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The association lends money to the world's very poorest countries.
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Tuft's hospitals are heavily indebted to National Century, which lends money secured by hospital equipment and accounts receivable.
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Banks would lend money more freely and, in fattening their own balance sheets, would feed credit-starved economies.
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United California sued, and Prudential countered that it could not be compelled to lend money that obviously would not be repaid.
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Mauve said no, he should get a bed: he would lend him the money .
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Only way I can get the plane I need is you lend e the money to buy the other landing gear.
lose
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A back trouser pocket is the easiest pocket both to pick, and from which to lose either money or a wallet.
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It showed the company that Orrick was willing to make a commitment to them by losing some money in the short run.
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The boat skipper gives Kevin a choice - swim or struggle on in the bad weather and lose your money .
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Many of these projects are now losing massive amounts of money and only survive with public subsidies.
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He speculated and they lost all their money before the family grew up.
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Like most biotechs, Agouron has lost money consistently as it poured funds into drug research.
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But one day Winfield lost some money in the street.
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But the proposals were rejected by Democratic legislators, who said the underfunded public school system would lose too much money .
make
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Soon we were making more money than the car company was losing.
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The idea is to make as much money as possible from news departments, sometimes to the detriment of truth and journalism.
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At the same time, the top teams are committed to making as much money as possible.
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The trader also made the money for Salomon Brothers.
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All of life, with its problems: working, making money , loving.
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We make a little money on the black market.
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The best way to make money is to be a!
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When they have a hot product, they make lots of money .
need
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I still needed money so I had to carry on working the streets.
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Now our job may be less demanding, or we may need less money and cut back to part-time work.
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And pretty soon they won't need any money from the Government.
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Yes, the Diamondbacks need the additional money so they can sign another ballplayer to another multi-million-dollar contract.
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People need more money at Christmas, even crooks.
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No sense in spending wildly now, I thought, when later we might need the money .
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Mr. Leigh I agree with the hon. Gentleman to this extent - that the coal mining areas need this money .
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Schools help students who need more money get a patchwork of private supplemental loans.
owe
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In fact, however, we now owe you money , since you were effectively acting as a salesman!
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We get a lot better response from people who owe us money by signing our collection letter with the name Victor Sparducci.
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He owed money to numerous tradesmen, here and in London.
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All three are listed in the bankruptcy filing as owing Evergreen money .
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The court held that the accused represented that the bank owed him the money and that he was entitled to withdraw it.
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He had just gone into the aircraft repair business and owed money for the space he had leased.
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The accused has not appropriated a thing in action, because the bank did not owe the money to anyone.
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You have to resolve in your own mind who you want to owe this money to.
pay
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Now that's the kind of hyperreal simulacrum I'd have paid good money to watch.
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If he succeeded in creating the illusion, the firm would pay him more money at the end of the year.
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It is being paid by people whose money , as of 1 July, has been halved in value.
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So why pay extra money in commissions for financial advice to get only an average return?
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Passing the muck Sometimes these external costs are paid in money .
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They pay a lot of money .
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He did not pay the money he owed immediately.
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Police suspect that foreign companies have paid guerrillas protection money to prevent them from blowing up remote oil pipelines and fields.
pour
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First, it has poured money into Xinjiang.
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They pour money and staff time into the politicians' campaigns.
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Since the federal government began pouring money and manpower into the Border Patrol here, experience also has become an issue.
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The wheel kept spinning, the damned kept pouring away their money .
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In addition, the company has soured some investors by pouring money into headlong expansion at the expense of earnings.
provide
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Should the monk provide her with this money she will repay him in whatever way he pleases.
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He provided the necessary money for new costumes.
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He provided the money to make this possible and it was at this time that Paul moved into Allen Street.
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The residency provides scholarship money to send five Arizona high-school musicians to Washington for summer study at the Kennedy Center.
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There is also the matter of who should provide the money .
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They provide the money for his cronies.
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Is this likely to provide value for money ?
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The tenor of his argument was that the Parliament due to meet in February 1545 could not provide enough money in time.
put
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Smiling, Aunt Margaret put the money away in a drawer which was the till.
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A group of Texas businessmen would put up the money to bury the broadcast, he said.
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The customer dialled the publication he wanted, put in his money , and out came the book.
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It leads to a crime: Some one is murdering claimants and putting their insurance money to private use.
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Marconi had to put all his own money into it for its survival.
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Fernando Chico Pardo, a Carso director, says investors could consider putting money in the as-yet-unnamed holding company.
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By putting their money as well as their trust into credit, they are in the long run paying more, not less.
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They certainly are not prepared to put money into new ideas.
raise
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Second, to raise money for the 1996 campaign early.
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Incumbents busy raising money for the next election are not inclined to waste energy rehashing the rules of the last campaign.
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It raised the money through the placing of two million ordinary shares at just over £3 per share.
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He raises money from investors to take companies public.
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Clearly, the regions' powers to raise money have grown and are set to grow further.
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Parishioners now have raised enough money to launch construction of the new cathedral.
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Recently the microcomputers have been used for competitions during break-time to raise money for charity.
receive
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The offer is made when the proprietor of the machine holds it out as being ready to receive the money .
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The school is one of 19 across the country to receive the modernization money .
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It says it faces problems because it receives money for average rather than actual salaries.
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Only Porter, Liddy and Magruder had received large amounts of money .
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He signed a document stating that he received the money in full satisfaction of all claims in respect of personal injury.
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None of the other complainants received money in the settlement.
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She would never have received the money but for Mrs Marsden's inquiry.
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However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.
save
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Bigger classes and lower education standards are predicted as teachers are sacked to save money .
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By measuring their return on investment, they understand when spending money will save them money.
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Cheltenham Borough council says it wants to save money to meet spending limits but no final decision has yet been made.
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Mountjoy said the new program will not immediately save the state money .
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And, of course, cycling can save money and provide pleasure.
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He saves his money , before you know it he owns a car.
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It may save bands a lot of money .
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You could save money at the post office then.
spend
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Money was being spent , but money could be accounted for.
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Because we spend most of our money responding to fires, not preventing them.
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If you have, it is wise to consider the following points before spending any money on computer equipment.
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The most difficult discussions between the president and Congress right now concern how to spend all the money the government has.
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With ready cash in your bank account you can spend the money as you want.
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You are not going to spend a lot of money in a state that is squarely in his column.
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Instead, they keep their fingers crossed and spend the money on hardware to enhance performance.
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But he clearly spent money as fast as it came in.
throw
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Labour would throw money at industry.
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You just throw money around and the more it grows wherever it falls.
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Officialdom's response has been to throw more money at the problem.
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People want to throw large sums of money at Craig, just to hear him talk in that folksy North Carolina drawl.
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Combs said he did not see a man throwing money at him, an incident that the prosecution says sparked the clash.
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Should the regents continue to throw good money after bad?
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They are flash people who have money to throw about, and not all the money they throw about is honest money.
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You could not just throw the money at the people.
use
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And use the extra money to get those rear wheels working for a living.
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Some, such as 19-year-old Christina Thompson, use the money to go to college.
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Hundreds of copper crosses, used as money by the miners, are buried beneath the violet blooms.
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Pinay Cuevas was not satisfied to use up the indemnity money to meet the needs of the moment.
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He had used the money to hire smart clothes for his wedding.
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Gibbs calls it a blatant violation of the federal Fair Housing Act, which forbids using federal money for gentrification.
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It was the working class who wanted to use their money for flamboyant display.
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The company will use the money to buy back short-term, high-interest debt.
waste
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Otherwise you are wasting your money !
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This explains why public organizations get so bloated: our budget systems actually encourage every public manager to waste money .
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You need to be sensible about buying components for stock though, or you will probably just waste a lot of money .
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When this happens, strategic plans not only waste enormous time and money , they can become actual barriers to innovation.
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Insufficient knowledge of the latter can waste a lot of money .
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Failed projects waste money that might have been better spent elsewhere.
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Don't waste time and money on house surveys until these questions have been examined thoroughly.
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He was wasting her money as he handled these sketches.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I'm not made of money
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"Why don't you move to a bigger house?" "I'm not made of money, you know!"
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I can't buy you shoes as well - I'm not made of money!
a fool and his money are soon parted
be a waste of time/money/effort etc
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An unrealistically low offer is a waste of time.
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As I said, many of these divisions of investigation will be a waste of time.
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But it was a waste of time.
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He may protest to the auditor that this is a waste of time.
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I feel annoyed, it is a waste of time.
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Marx thought that scholarly contemplation was a waste of time.
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Which was a waste of time really, because all I wanted to do was join Granpa on the barrow.
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While some thought that they did a good job, a substantial minority felt that they were a waste of time.
be pressed for time/money etc
be pushed for time/money etc
be rolling in money/dough/cash/it
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Mel Levine is rolling in dough.
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After all, this man was a tycoon as well as a doctor; he must be rolling in money.
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Because the people who are rolling in it certainly are.
careful with money
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Napier hopes voters will remember that he's been careful with taxpayers' money.
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And in those early days he was careful with money.
coin money/coin it (in)
easy money
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The thought of easy money draws many people to drug dealing.
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Disadvantages: Some part-timers regard Koi dealing as a way of making easy money.
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In discussing the easy money prescription we have chosen a fairly extreme version of it, in part to get students excited.
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Instead, he is expected to surrender one-third of the Championship and opt for some easy money.
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Owing to legal changes, young barristers can no longer earn easy money on undefended divorces, which are now done by solicitors.
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People will tell you you can make easy money.
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Sincere spirit and moral authority count, not quick and easy money.
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The easy money regime focused attention on monetary policy and contributed to the significance accorded to the money supply in later years.
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The reason too much easy money and not enough dedication and genuine love for one's chosen work.
give sb a (good) run for their money
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Slosser gave Boyd a run for his money in the 1996 GOP primary.
good value (for money)
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All are good value at under £4.
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And I think I received good values from the church.
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Highly recommended and also good value for the region.
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Political scribblers were usually better value than politicians, most of them being irreverent and much better informed.
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The best values are the credit-card companies, and I like them all.
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Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer.
have a (good) run for your money
hot money
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But when hot money chases hot pictures, can a crash be far away?
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It was hot money - nicked from a sub post office in Southend three weeks ago.
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Mr. Evans Does not it mean that we are the party of hot money, not hot air?
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Second, it attracts hot money into the country to finance the current account deficit because investors perceive no currency risk.
it/money doesn't grow on trees
licence to print money
money/expense is no object
money/time etc to spare
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All those below were too busy and had not time to spare to comfort him with a few minutes' companionship.
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But with time to spare , we rummaged around.
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I do not have the time to spare to meander through mountains.
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They maintain the government will have money to spare by 2011.
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Unfortunately, I haven't very much time to spare .
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We don't smoke or drink, so we have some money to spare .
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With time to spare , the Age Bulgers dominated all levels of politics and made sure their special interests came first.
money/time/space etc to play with
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He had time for his garden, time to talk to his Stratford friends, time to play with his granddaughter Elizabeth.
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Lennie knows he hasn't any time to play with if Boro are to stay in the big time.
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Then it's time to play with the topper dinghies!
not for love or/nor money
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I can't get a hold of that book for love nor money.
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And you still can't get a good daily woman now to clean, not for love or money.
pots of money
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It would also become clear which of the 70 pots of money were in high demand and which were irrelevant.
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The counselor would then electronically graze the 70 categorical pots of money.
power-mad/money-mad/sex-mad etc
pump money into sth
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However, measures to save the airline failed when Delta Air Lines refused to pump money into the ailing carrier.
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Though the Fed pumped money into the banks, the money supply seemed not to budge much.
ready money/cash
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He was only willing to sell it for ready cash.
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Any peasant short of ready money now had to resort to a usurer.
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Both have so far proved effective, which shows that ready cash is more versatile than credit cards and cheque books.
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I pass up a roadside rest area, a happy hunting ground for new cars and ready cash.
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Less need for travelers' checks at many destinations because of the growing availability of automated teller machines worldwide dispensing ready cash.
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Phagu clipped the goats and wound the hair into skeins which he would sell for ready cash in town.
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There is not so much ready cash in my treasury.
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With ready cash in your bank account you can spend the money as you want.
see the colour of sb's money
show me the money
soft money
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But they can give parties any amount of soft money.
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By 1996, a total of $ 250 million in soft money had been given to the two parties.
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Dole now backs a ban on PACs, soft money contributions and the use of dues to finance labor union donations.
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I was sinking fast in the mire of soft money.
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Is your toilet paper honestly the softest money can buy?
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Of the soft money total, $ 2, 357, 259 went to the Republican party.
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The study covered soft money gifts to the national, House and Senate committees of each major party.
the smart money is on sb/sth
throw money at sth
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Combs said he did not see a man throwing money at him, an incident that the prosecution says sparked the clash.
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Even so, Clinton is not exactly throwing money at the illiteracy problem.
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Labour would throw money at industry.
time is money
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For the developer, time is money.
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It is often said that time is money, but it is seen as cost and not value.
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My time is money for me and the firm.
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Plus, it only takes seconds to connect up, and as time is money that's always important.
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That costs time , and time is money.
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That would be a waste of their time , and time is money.
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They know time is money so they have a policy of buying it with yours and everyone else's. 5.
time/money/energy waster
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Although it is easy to dismiss meetings as time wasters , the above indicates why you should take them seriously.
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Cons: Writing with pen and paper is perhaps one of the greatest time wasters in the business world.
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FoE pinpointed fridges, light bulbs, washing machines, dishwashers, televisions, and tumble driers as energy wasters .
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Good experience and dedication, no time wasters .
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Romantic as it may be, a fireplace without glass doors is a real energy waster .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Are you coming out with us on Saturday?" "No, I'm trying to save money ."
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Money isn't everything.
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$250 is a lot of money .
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Critics have described the project as "a complete waste of money ".
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Dad, can I have some money to buy some new jeans?
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Do you think these trainers are worth the extra money ?
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Don't spend all your money on sweets.
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Gillian said not to get any flowers - she thinks it's a waste of money .
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He had made his money as a butcher in Kingstown.
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He put the Italian money in a separate billfold.
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I've left some money in the pot for your bus fare.
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I enjoy the work, and I make good money .
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I haven't got any money , if that's what you're after.
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I spend far too much money on Christmas presents.
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If she's got money to run a car, how come she gets the bus every day?
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Leon dropped all his money on the floor.
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My grandmother left me all her money when she died.
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Shall I give you some money for petrol?
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She wastes an awful lot of money on expensive clothes.
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The committee is meeting to discuss how the money should be spent this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For larger corporations, direct participation in the money market may still be cost effective.
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He had no money , but wanted to be near his parents.
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Instead, he donated the money to the needy.
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Raymond Campbell wants to join Linfield not just for money !
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Smiles quoted Benjamin Haydon as dating his decline from the day he first borrowed money .
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The unreadiness of governments to put money where the minister's mouth is, however notorious, not the issue.
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Then the police will start spending the money on helicopters and speedboats.