pecuniary

Definition

Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.

Etymology

From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”), itself from pecū (“cattle”) and thus related to fee.

Example Sentences

• "Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so."
• "The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class."