mint money

mint money
See: COIN MONEY.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • mint\ money — • coin money • mint money v. phr. informal To make a lot of money quickly; profit heavily; gain big profit. Fred coined money with many cigarette vending machines and juke boxes …   Словарь американских идиом

  • mint money — See: COIN MONEY …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • money — ► NOUN 1) a medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes. 2) wealth. 3) payment or financial gain. 4) (moneys or monies) formal sums of money. ● for my money Cf. ↑ …   English terms dictionary

  • mint´er — mint1 «mihnt», noun. 1. a sweet smelling herb often used for flavoring. Peppermint and spearmint are well known kinds of mint. The mints comprise a genus of the mint family. 2. any other plant of the mint family. 3. a piece of candy, usually… …   Useful english dictionary

  • mint — I. /mɪnt / (say mint) noun 1. any plant of the genus Mentha, comprising aromatic herbs with opposite leaves and small verticillate flowers, as spearmint, peppermint and horsemint. 2. a soft or hard confection flavoured with peppermint or other… …  

  • mint — [OE] English has two completely unconnected words mint. The ‘money factory’ comes ultimately from Latin monēta ‘mint, money’ (source also of English money). It was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *munita, which in due course produced… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • mint — [OE] English has two completely unconnected words mint. The ‘money factory’ comes ultimately from Latin monēta ‘mint, money’ (source also of English money). It was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *munita, which in due course produced… …   Word origins

  • Money bag — Moneybags redirects here. For the game character, see Moneybags (Spyro character). For the rapper, see E Moneybags. Money purse redirects here. For the money won as a prize, sometimes referred to as purse money , see prize money. Saint Homobonus… …   Wikipedia

  • money — I. noun (plural moneys or monies) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English moneye, from Anglo French moneie, from Latin moneta mint, money more at mint Date: 14th century 1. something generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • money — mon|ey W1S1 [ˈmʌni] n [U] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: moneie, from Latin moneta mint, money , from Moneta, name given to Juno, the goddess in whose temple the ancient Romans produced money] 1.) what you earn by working and can use to… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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