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or moolah
as in money
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
we dropped some serious moola on that home theater system
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Recent Examples of moola
The offer-by-offer media coverage helped Soto transcend the sport, attracting fans mesmerized by entertainers and the intrigue surrounding their staggering big moolah deals.
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Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
Bennett explains that if anyone quits the game, their share of the moolah exits with them.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2024
The Emeril Lagasse Foundation Innovation Kitchen (the celebrity chef/restaurateur’s foundation donated a pot-full of moola).
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2023
Not entirely surprising, as online vintage shopping is a haven for people who have worked in editorial but don’t quite have the moola to spend on the products featured in their magazines.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2021
Behind the film lie the Panama Papers—the millions of files, leaked in 2016, that demonstrated how the wealthy stash their moola offshore and thereby avoid the plebeian vulgarity of tax.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2019
The moola-saving-palooza started on July 15 at midnight PT and will end on July 16 at 11:59 PT.
—Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
The result is a lot of human misery and lost moola.
—Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018
Everyone agrees the bundles of moola are a lure for criminals, but merchants who can’t access traditional banking have no other way to settle up.
—Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moola
Noun
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With full visibility of health care prices, companies and unions would also be better equipped to save money on insurance plans and pass down those savings to employees in the form of higher wages and more take-home pay, allowing employees to offset the high cost of living.—
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Britain had guns and jails and beer and gobs of money.—
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The company reported cash provided by operating activities of $578,218, while cash used in investing and financing activities was $3,527,929 and $869,896, respectively.—
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If approved by the City Council, the roof repairs would be the third tranche of cash allocated to the leaky stadium since the storms.—
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While cookie dough sits, preheat oven to 350°F with 1 oven rack in upper third of oven and 1 rack in lower third.—
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Recipe Tips For Hummingbird Cookies Let the dough to rest for a few minutes before baking; this allows the flour to hydrate and ends in a more tender cookie.—
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“Moola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moola. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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