April 15, 2014

Amounts of Money

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 37 v.05


    Main Definitions

  1. amount 1 |n| the total of something in number, size, value, or extent.
  2. "He paid the full amount owed."
  3. "Small amounts will be paid in cash." 
  4. amount 2 |n| a sum of money. 
  5. "The insurance company will refund any amount due to you." 
  6. "You will receive a bill for the full amount." 
  7. amount of money |n| a quantity of money.
  8. "The amount he had in cash was insufficient."
  9. sum / sum of money |n| a quantity of money / a particular amount of money.
  10. "You wil be fined the sum of U$S 200."
  11. "Huge sums have been invested in this project."
  12. "He borrowed a large sum."
  13. "Huge sums of money are spent on national defence." 
  14. the sum of |n| the total amount resulting from the addition of two or more numbers of amounts.
  15. "A six-figure sum."
  16. figure |n| a particular amount of money.


         Kinds of Sums

  1. a huge/enormous/vast sum.
  2. "The company has invested huge sums in research."
  3. a five-figure / six-figure/ seven-figure / sum |n| an amount in the ten thousands, hundred thousands etc.
  4. "The newspaper paid a six-figure sum for the photograph of the princess."
  5. a large/considerable/substantial sum.
  6. "He lost a substantial sum of money on the deal."
  7. a modest sum | not a very big amount of money. 
  8. "She had paid a modest sum for the paintings."
  9. the princely sum of ... | a large amount, often used humorously to mean a small amount.
  10. "They were surviving on the princely sum of £50 a week."
  11. "For the princely sum of $8 million you too could live in a mansion like this."
  12. a small sum
  13. "Each year the inhabitants had to pay a small sum for the use of the pasture."
  14. "For his first book he received the princely sum of U$S 400."
  15. a tidy sum |informal| a large amount of money.
  16. "I had managed to save a tidy sum."
  17.  the total sum
  18. "The total sum lost is believed to be around £2 million."
  19. an undisclosed sum | an amount that is being kept secret.
  20. "He sold the company for an undisclosed sum."
  21. bonus 1 |n| a sum of money added to a person's wages for a good performance.
  22. "A £100 Christmas bonus."
  23. "He was awarded a chas bonus of U$S 2,500."
  24. bonus 2 |n| an extra dividend or issue paid to shareholders.
  25. fortune |n| a very large amount of money.
  26. "He made a fortune selling property in Spain."
  27. "My first painting sold for £25,  a small fortune then for an art student."
  28. pocket money / pin money / spending money |n| a small amount of money suitable for minor expenses.
  29. "How much pocket money do you get?"
  30. broke |n| without money. 
    "I can't afford to go out tonight. I'm broke."
     
 

         US

  1. buck |n| |informal| a piece of paper money worth one dollar.
  2. "He owes me ten bucks."
  3. dime |n| a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar.
  4. "He didn't have a dime."
  5. grand |n| |informal| a thousand dollars or pounds.
  6. "It'll cost you five grand!"
  7. "He gets thirty-five grand a year."

         UK

  1. pound |n| the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence.
  2. "A ten-pound note."
  3. "A pound coin."
  4. "What would you do if you won a million pounds?"
  5. "Total losses were estimated at over three million pounds."
  6. penny / cent / centime |n| a coin worth one-hundredth of a pound |pl. pence|.
  7. "He had a few pennies in his pocket."
  8. "A fourpenny cigar."
  9. "The machine will only accept 10p coins."
  10. "Five pounds and thirty pence."
  11.  pence |n| plural form of penny.
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