{
  "id": "money.economic",
  "term": "money",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "money",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a resource that is a property of price and work",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "resource.material",
      "property.attribute",
      "work.effort",
      "price.economic"
    ],
    "interaction": "resource material and work effort are added to create a property of price that is typically used in buying.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "medium of exchange",
      "measurable value",
      "purchasing power"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The US Federal Reserve issued $2.3 trillion in new money during the 2020 economic response.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin miners in Kazakhstan consumed 15 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2022 to secure block rewards.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The East India Company paid London dockworkers in silver rupees for unloading tea from Canton in 1783.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "resource.material",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "price.economic",
      "note": "medium for exchange",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bank.financial",
    "capital.financial",
    "cash.economic",
    "casino.entertainment",
    "economic.financial",
    "finance.economic",
    "financial.economic",
    "fund.financial",
    "gold.metal",
    "income.financial",
    "investment.financial",
    "loan.financial",
    "market.economic",
    "payment.economic",
    "poker.game",
    "purchase.economic",
    "sell.economic",
    "sponsored.financial",
    "tax.economic",
    "trade.economic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "money",
    "monies"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'price.economic' as a component because the definition hinges on the idea of price, which is not constructible from material, work, and attribute alone. The interaction and novel properties now "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-money.economic"
}