英和和英

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• IPA: /ˈmʌniləs/

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moneyless (comparative more moneyless, superlative most moneyless)

1. Having no (or very little) money.

   Synonyms: penniless; destitute; see also Thesaurus:impoverished

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:rich

   • 1973 November 11, “The American Indians”, in The New York Times‎:

     The result, say the few moneyless militants, is a divided national Indian leadership populated by Uncle Tomahawks, or “apples,” red on the outside, white on the inside.

   • 2006 October 25, Stan Grossfeld, “Ex-Sox pitcher Stewart threw it all away when he succumbed to drugs”, in Boston.com‎:

     "There's a lot of times I wished I would have died because I was pathetic," [Stewart] says matter of factly. "I guess I started digging a hole for myself and it got so bad I got homeless, moneyless, friendless. I just started covering myself up instead of climbing out of the hole."

2. That does not use money as a means of exchange.

   Hyponyms: barter (when attributive), in-kind

   Near-synonym: nonmoney

   In eras when trade was largely by barter and taxes were usually paid in kind, moneyless transactions could constitute a large percentage of a national economy.

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