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in the money

in the money prepositional phrase: possessing money; rich.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Possessing money; rich.
    • 1933: We're In The Money — song title, lyrics Al Dubin, music Harry Warren https://web.archive.org/web/20101126014740/http://harrywarren.org/songs/0140.htm
      We're in the money. We're in the money. / We've got a lot of what it takes to get along.
  2. For an option, having a strike price which makes it profitable to exercise. For a call this is a strike below the market price, or for a put a strike above the market price.
  3. Achieving a sufficiently high ranking in a contest to earn money (for oneself, or for those who have placed a bet).
    • The cash prizes for first, second and third place were too enticing to pass up. If he finished in the money he could just hang out for the next year and concentrate on his new life as Timothy Gales.2014, Poe Hawkins, The Last Alchemist: And the Love of His Life, page 149

in the money meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Sanskrit

in the money in Tamil

உள் பணநிலை

in the money in Malayalam

wealthy, rich, affluent
സമ്പന്നമായ, പണമുള്ള, ധനസമൃദ്ധമായ, സ്വത്തുള്ള, ധനവത്ത്, ധനമുള്ള

in the money in Sanskrit

in the money
धनिक dhanika

Antonyms of in the money

Questions about in the money

What does in the money mean?
In the money means possessing money; rich.
What is in the money in Tamil?
In the money in Tamil is உள் பணநிலை. See In the money meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is in the money?
In the money is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the money in the dictionary

  1. in the meanwhile
  2. in the middle of
  3. in the midst of
  4. in the mix
  5. in the moment
  6. in the money
  7. in the mood
  8. in the name of
  9. in the name of all that is holy
  10. in the name of heaven
  11. in the name of the law

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in the money (page history and authors); in the money (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in the money (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); धनिक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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