We talk about money in English

By Eriberto Do Nascimento on 05 Jun 2022

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The end of the year is the time to calculate income and expenses. At the same time, you can do repetition and check vocabulary related to money in English. Here are the basic expressions about money in English:

how much is - how much does it cost
coin - coin
note - bank note
change - surrender

Payment Methods

Cash - cash
check(s) - check(s)
credit (slang - plastic) - credit card

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Theme money: General notation

Table 1. Expressions about money in English

Dictionary on the topic "Money"
Account - account	a record of money a person deposits into a bank
ATM - ATM	Automatic Teller Machine aka Hole in the wall.
Balance - balance	the difference between credits and debits in an account
bank - bank	a building in which commercial banking is transacted.
bank charges	money paid to a bank for the bank's services etc
barter - exchange	to trade without using money.
Borrow - to borrow	to ask for the temporary use of money on the condition of repayment and at a set rate of interest.
Branch - branch of the bank	local office or bureau of a bank
Cashflow - cash flow	cash earnings minus cash outflows for fixed- and working-capital investment.
Cashier - cashier	an employee of a bank or building society who receives and pays out money.
Checkbook - checkbook	book containing detachable checks
Check - check	written order to a bank to pay the stated sum from one's account
Counterfeit - counterfeit money	fake money made in order to decade - also v.
Credit - credit	money in a bank a/c; sum added to a bank a/c; money lent by a bank - also v.
credit card - credit card	(plastic) card from a bank authorizing the purchasing of goods on credit
Currency - currency	money that is used by a country such as the United Kingdom.
current account - current account	bank a/c from which money may be drawn at any time; checking account US
Debit - debit	a sum deducted from a bank account, as for a check - also v.
debit card - debit card	you use a debit card in much the same way as a credit card but instead of receiving credit after making your purchase, the funds are automatically (within a few days usually) withdrawn from your bank account.
Debt - debt	the state of owing something (especially money).
Denomination - bill	a number that expresses the value of a coin or bill. A five pound note and a ten pound note represent two denominations.
Deposit - deposit	an amount of money placed with a bank
deposit account - savings account	bank a/c on which interest is paid; savings account US.
fill in - fill in (application, form)	to add written information to a document to make it complete.
foreign exchange - foreign currency, currency trading	Used to describe the currency of other countries and the system for dealing in such currency (often shortened to Forex).
Interest - interest	money paid for borrowing money, or money that a bank or building society pays a customer for putting money into their bank.
interest rate	the percentage of an amount of money which is paid for the use of that money over a period of time.
Lend - to lend	to give the temporary use of money on the condition of repayment and at a set rate of interest.
Loan - loan, credit	money lent by a bank etc and that must be repaid with interest - also v.
Overdraft - overdraft, excess credit	deficit in a bank account caused by withdrawing more money than is paid in
Pay - pay	To give (someone) money that is due for work done, goods received, or a debt incurred.
Pay - payment	Money paid to someone for regular work. Also see salary.
pay in - make a contribution	to deposit or put money in to a bank account
Payee - payee	person to whom money is paid
paying-in slip - deposit receipt	small document recording money that you pay in to a bank account
pension	A regular payment made during a person's retirement (when they become too old to work) from an investment fund to which that person or their employer has contributed.
Salary - wages	A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis made by an employer to an employee.
Statement - account statement	a record of transactions in a bank account
Withdraw - withdraw money	to take money out of a bank account
Withdrawal - withdrawal of money	the act of taking out money.

Poor and rich, generous and greedy

There are many ways to describe a rich or poor person. Some of them are not even suspected by advanced users.

Table 2. How to describe a rich and poor person in English

Filthy rich	obscenely rich
stinking rich	obscenely rich
rolling in it	like a cat in oil
wealthy	rich
rich	rich
prosperous	prosperous
affluent	wealthy
well off	secured
hard up	destitute
needy	needy
skint	penniless
brassic	beyond the poverty line
penniless	penniless
broke	bankrupt
poor	poor
impoverished	beggar
poverty-stricken	beggar
destitute	poor

If you are generous, noble and do not spare money, then you can be called:

charitable (generous)
generous (generous)
sharing (compassionate)
unselfish (responsive)

If, on the contrary, you keep money with you, then you can use the definitions:

mean (mean)
miserly (petty)
selfish (selfish)
stingy (stingy)
tight (miser)
uncharitable (ungenerous)
ungenerous (ungenerous

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Eriberto Do Nascimento

Eriberto Do Nascimento has Ph.D. in Speech Intelligibility and Artificial Intelligence and is the founder of English Phonetics Academy.