ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

V. speculate, invest, trade, trade stocks, play the market; buy long, sell short, take a
position, straddle; take a plunge, plunge in, take a flier [Coll.].
799b. Securities -- N. securities, stocks, common stock, preferred stock, bonds, puts,
calls, options, option contract, warrants, commercial paper, bearer bond, tax-exempt
bond, callable bond, convertable bond † .
share, stock certificate; coupon, bond coupon.
liquid assets.
4. Monetary Relations
800. Money -- N. money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts
&c 811; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets &c (property) 780; wealth &c 803;
supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash;
mammon.
[colloquial terms for money] dough, cabbage.
money-like instruments, M1, M2, sum, amount; balance, balance sheet; sum total;
proceeds &c (receipts) 810.
currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece [Fr.], hard cash, cold cash; dollar,
sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in
hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug [U.S.], wad [Slang] wad of bills
[U.S.], wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough [Coll.]; rhino † , blunt † , dust † ,
mopus † , tin † , salt † , chink † ; argent comptant [Lat.]; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar † ; checks,
dibs [Slang].
[specific types of currency] double eagle, eagle; Federal currency, fractional currency,
postal currency; Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate † , gold
certificate † ; long bit, short bit [U.S.]; moss, nickel, pile [Slang], pin money, quarter
[U.S.], red cent, roanoke † , rock [Slang]; seawan † , seawant † ; thousand dollars, grand
[Coll.].
[types of paper currency, U.S.] single, one-dollar bill; two-dollar bill; five-dollar bill,
fiver [Coll.], fin [Coll.], Lincoln; ten-dollar bill, sawbuck; twenty-dollar bill, Jackson,
double sawbuck; fifty-dollar bill; hundred-dollar bill, C-note.
[types of U.S. coins: list] penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper [1700-
1900]; two-cent piece three-cent piece [Fr.], half-dime † , nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel † ,
dime, disme † , mercury dime † , quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar,
Eisenhower dollar, Susan B.
Anthony dollar † .
precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget.
petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit † , stiver † , rap, mite,
farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea; rouleau † ; wampum; good sum, round
sum, lump sum; power of money, plum, lac of rupees.
major coin, crown; minor coin.
monetarist, monetary theory.
[Science of coins] numismatics, chrysology † .
[coin scholar or collector] numismatist.