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pecuniary
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Definition:relating to money; financial
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The most unpleasant thing of all was that his pecuniary interests should in this way enter into the question of his reconciliation with his wife.
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The fact was that my balance was at the moment small. I have not yet in the course of this narrative gone into my pecuniary position, but I may state here that it was an inconvenient one.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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he hoped I should not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate pecuniary advantage, in lieu of the preferment, by which he could not be benefited.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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