See lucre in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange:
cash, currency, money. (Informal) wampum. (Slang) bread, cabbage, dough, gelt, green, jack, lettuce, long green, mazuma, moola, scratch. (Chiefly British) brass. See money
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