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pecuniarily

pecuniarily adverb: in a pecuniary manner; in terms of money; financially.

Adverb

pecuniarily (not comparable)

  1. In a pecuniary manner; in terms of money; financially.
    • She knew of course what he meant—how it had taken his father-in-law's great fortune, and taken no small slice, to surround him with an element in which, all too fatally weighted as he had originally been, he could pecuniarily float....1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl

Origin of pecuniarily

From pecuniary + -ly.

Questions about pecuniarily

What does pecuniarily mean?
Pecuniarily means in a pecuniary manner; in terms of money; financially.
What part of speech is pecuniarily?
Pecuniarily is an adverb.

Words near pecuniarily in the dictionary

  1. peculiary
  2. peculium
  3. peculs
  4. pecunial
  5. pecuniar
  6. pecuniarily
  7. pecuniary
  8. pecuniary unit
  9. pecuniary units
  10. pecuniosity
  11. pecunious

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