found money
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.36 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Unexpected money that one obtains in a manner that differs from one's usual sources of income.
Uncountable
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see found, money. Money that one finds.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "You can slice some girth from your debt load with a couple of big lump-sum payments, courtesy of any found money that comes along."
- "Note, though, that the rules of mental accounting are flexible—people are complicated. Sometimes they will categorize tax refunds, especially when they are small, as found money—and spend it accordingly."
- "My father's attitude toward his hoard was that it was almost found money. The money had trickled in little by little, and he never felt the sacrifice of saving."