pecuniary

Etymology

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

adj

  1. Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
    The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class. 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21

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