Definition of "pecuniary" []

• Of or relating to money: a pecuniary loss; pecuniary motives. (adjective)
• Requiring payment of money: a pecuniary offense. (adjective)

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• "He had always feared that an alliance based on a footing that was so openly "pecuniary," — he declared that the word pecuniary expressed his meaning better than any other epithet, — could not lead to matrimonial happiness."
• "He had always feared that an alliance based on a footing that was so openly "pecuniary," -- he declared that the word pecuniary expressed his meaning better than any other epithet, -- could not lead to matrimonial happiness."
• "It will be of advantage to her, and to me, both in pecuniary and other respects."