Money Vocabulary

Question 1

American and British versions for cheque

Answer 1

Cheque (British version)
Check (American version)

Question 2

Azotado por la pobreza

Answer 2

Poverty-stricken

Question 3

Empobrecido

Answer 3

Impoverished

Question 4

Tacaño

Answer 4

Stingy

Question 5

Having little money and few of the things you need to live (mal de dinero)

Answer 5

Badly off

Question 6

Forrado en plata

Answer 6

Loaded

Question 7

Unwilling to spend money

Answer 7

Tight-fisted

Question 8

Idiom informal (en quiebra). To spend or lose all of one’s money: to go broke

Answer 8

Bust (to go bust)

Question 9

It is the practice of trying to spend as little money as possible.

Answer 9

Penny-pinching (disapproval). Government penny-pinching is blamed for the decline in food standards.

Question 10

Short of money

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Hard-up (I’m too hard-up to buy fancy clothes)

Question 11

Avaro, tacaño

Answer 11

Miserly

Question 12

Amounts of money that regularly have to be spent, for example, to pay for heating or rent.

Answer 12

Outgoings

Question 13

Gastos

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Expenditures

Question 14

A style of eating that usually takes place in expensive restaurants, where especially good food is served to people, often in a formal way.

Answer 14

Fine dining

Question 15

Idiom. To suddenly have a lot of money

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To be in the money

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Idiom. To be very rich

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Made of money

Question 17

Idiom. You get what you pay for, the thing you buy is proportional to the money spent

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Get your money’s worth

Question 18

Idiom. To show with actions and not words

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Put your money where your mouth is

Question 19

To pay an amount of money, especially unwillingly.

Answer 19

To fork out (sth)

Question 20

Pound

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Quid

Question 21

Increasing

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To be on the rise

Question 22

A brief period of extravagant spending

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To go on a spending spree

Question 23

Comida para llevar

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British: takeaways
American: takeout

Question 24

To spend only as much money as you have

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To keep myself on budget

Question 25

It means that something is good value for the amount of money paid

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Cost-effective

Question 26

Ahorrar dinero en algunas cosas

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To save on some things

Question 27

comprar impulsivamente

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To buy things on impulse, because you suddenly want to, although you haven’t planned to

Question 28

A compromise (intercambio)

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A trade-off

Question 29

10 cents

Answer 29

one dime

Question 30

5 cents

Answer 30

one nickel

Question 31

1 cent

Answer 31

one penny

Question 32

25 cents

Answer 32

one quarter