| 词汇 | funny-money |
| 释义 | funny money noun[ U ] MONEY informalukus money whose value has been artificially increased, or money that is not worth as much as it appears to be: The banks have used funny money generated by creative accountancy to deal with vast amounts of public debt. Stock options were seen as funny money, enabling you to promise vast compensation to your employees without it hurting your bottom line. money that is not real, for example because it has been illegally printed or created for a game: Advances in computer technology are being used by criminals to make funny money. Guests are given $50 in funny money to bet with. a price or amount of money that is so large that it seems completely unreasonable: He agreed to sell the land, but he was asking funny money for it. Examples of funny moneyfunny money A central proposal was the free distribution of prosperity certificates (or social credit), called funnymoney by the opposition. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Currently, spending on regional policy is running at £600 million per year, as shown by 1975 survey prices—"funnymoney" as it is called. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There should not be one sort of funnymoney for expenditure and another sort of money for revenue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Real, and not funnymoney has to be found at the end of the day to meet the debts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not funnymoney, or double counted; it is real and people do not want it back in tax cuts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are beginning to suss that the £18 billion and £21 billion are funnymoney. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are, to begin with, in so-called funnymoney. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the great advantages of cash limits is that they are cash, and not funnymoney. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a sense, it is neither here nor there, because the calculations refer to funnymoney. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The council has indulged in no extravance and no excesses of creative accounting to spend "funnymoney". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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