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Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury..

Resource :: Resource (n.) Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind..

Pecuniarily :: Pecuniarily (adv.) In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

Bookkeeping :: Bookkeeping (n.) The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger..

Escuage :: Escuage (n.) Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage..

Tax :: Tax (n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority..

Prudential :: Prudential (a.) Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives..

Monetary :: Monetary (a.) Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary..

Refer :: Refer (v. i.) To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story..

Fine :: Fine (n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars..

Pecunial :: Pecunial (a.) Pecuniary.

Ban :: Ban (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes..

Liability :: Liability (n.) the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets.

Pecuniary :: Pecuniary (a.) Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward..

Good :: Good (superl.) Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit..

Account :: Account (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank..

Amende :: Amende (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.

Embarrass :: Embarrass (v. t.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements..

Octogild :: Octogild (n.) A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing..

Amerce :: Amerce (v. t.) To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars..

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