as in cash
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
where did he get the long green to afford wheels like that?
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Noun
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If no one wins the jackpot, the cash prize will continue to tick up.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025 -
One afternoon, Coogler stopped by a Bank of America to make a sizable cash withdrawal from his account to cover some family expenses.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Medora Lee is a money, markets, and personal finance reporter at USA TODAY.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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The agency does more than just give out money: FEMA deploys experts in disaster response and recovery and maintains stockpiles of emergency equipment.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
2 May 2025
Noun
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Customers, who had access to more than 20 crypto coins at the time, were either shunted to Blockchain.com or liquidated their holdings.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
29 Apr. 2025
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The coin imploded a month later, erasing billions of dollars in wealth.—
Eric Lipton,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The Bears traded away a massive amount of draft currency, sending the 49ers a four-pack of picks — Nos. 3, 67 and 111 in that year’s draft plus a 2018 third-rounder — to slide up one peg to No. 2 on the draft board to draft Mitch Trubisky, a quarterback at North Carolina.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2025
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Their faces have appeared on currency, Streets bear their names, children learn about them in school.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The ancients used it as legal tender.—
Larry Light,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Other nations, such as El Salvador, have already embraced Bitcoin as legal tender, but a move of this magnitude from the world’s largest economy is unprecedented.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Long green.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/long%20green. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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