e-money
English
editEtymology
editNoun
edit- The virtual money used in e-banking or its shadow banking counterparts.
- Synonyms: cybercash, cybermoney, e-cash
- Hyponym: cryptocurrency
- Coordinate terms: cybercurrency, digital currency, e-currency, virtual currency
- 1995, “E-money”, in Popular Science, volume 247, number 1, page 74:
- Once e-money is accepted as universally as greenbacks, don't be surprised if a disheveled man on the street steps up to you and says, "Brother, can you spare a little stored value?"
- 2009, Roger LeRoy Miller, Gaylord A. Jentz, Fundamentals of Business Law: Excerpted Cases, page 412:
- Another form of e-money is the smart card.