Amount
Amount noun - A quantity of money.
Usage example: the amount he had in cash was insufficient
Sum of money is a synonym for amount. In some cases you can use "Sum of money" instead a noun "Amount".
Nearby Words: amounting, amounted
Sum of money
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Our title character finds an unmarked envelope with a large sum of money, and he decides to turn it in to the police, despite the amount of flak he received from his friends.
Source: Screw the Money, I Have Rules! - Cisqua from Elemental Gelade helps bring down a gladiator ring / betting parlor, and also helps free a large amount of enslaved Edel Raids, and gets a huge sum of money as a reward.
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Brewster's Millions, a novel twice adapted into films, in which the protagonist will inherit a large sum of money, but only if he can completely waste a smaller amount of money in thirty days (spend thirty million to inherit three hundred million in the later Richard Pryor film adaptation).
Source: Race Against the Clock
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