paper money

What does paper money mean?

paper money means "currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie".

What is another word for paper money?

Close synonyms include folding money, paper currency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paper money a common word?

paper money is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for paper money come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.