Chapter Words Relating to the Voluntary Powers of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

Means, provision, substance, revenue, income, alimony, livelihood, subsistence, loaves and fishes, pelf, mammon, lucre, dower 810, pension, superannuation, annuity, unearned increment, pin-money.

A rich man, capitalist, plutocrat, financier, money-bags, millionaire, a Nabob, Dives, Crœsus, Midas; rentier.

(Verbs). To be rich, etc., to afford.

(Phrases). To roll in riches; to wallow in wealth; to hold one's head above water.

To enrich, fill one's coffers, etc.; to capitalise.

(Adjectives). Wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, flush, solvent 734, moneyed, plutocratic.

(Phrases). Made of money; rich as Crœsus; rich as a Jew; rolling in riches, etc.

One's ship come home.

• Poverty (Substantives), indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, need, lack, necessity, privation, distress, an empty purse; bad, reduced, or straitened circumstances; narrow means, straits, insolvency, beg-gary, mendicancy, mendicity.

(Phrases). Res angusta domi; the wolf at the door.

A poor man, pauper, mendicant, beggar, tramp, starveling; the proletariat; un pauvre diable; qui n'a pas le sou.

Poorhouse, workhouse.

(Verbs). To be poor, etc., to want, lack, starve.

(Phrases). To live from hand to mouth; come upon the parish; not to have a penny; cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

To render poor, etc., to reduce, to impoverish, reduce to poverty, depauperate, ruin; to pauperise.

(Adjectives). Poor, indigent, penniless, moneyless, short of money, out of money, out of cash, out of pocket, needy, destitute, necessitous, seedy, distressed, hard-up, in need, in want, poverty-stricken, badly off, in distress, pinched, dowerless, fortuneless, reduced, insolvent (see 806), bereft, bereaved, fleeced, stripped, stony-broke, stony.

(Phrases). Unable to make both ends meet; out at elbows; under hatches; not having a penny; not worth a sou; poor as a rat; poor as Job; poor as a church mouse; down or out at heels; on one's uppers.

(Adverb). In forma pauperis.

• Credit (Substantives), trust, tick, score, account.

Letter of credit, duplicate.

A creditor, lessor, mortgagee, debenture-holder; a dun, usurer, gombeen-man, Shylock.

(Verbs). To keep an account with, to credit, accredit.

(Adjective). Crediting.

(Adverbs). On credit, on tick, on account, to pay, unpaid for.

• Debt (Substantives), obligation, liability, debit, indebtment, arrears, deficit, default, insolvency.

Interest, usance, usury.