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herengi

1. (loan) (noun) money, shilling - equivalent to 10 cents.

Utua ai au e rima herengi i te wiki (HP 1991:26). / I was paid five shillings per week.
Tēnā hoki tētahi wāhi mā tātou, mā te Māori, kei riro anake ngā herengi i te iwi Pākehā, kei kīia kua ringa mūhore te Māori ki te ngaki witi (TW 22/6/1878:312). / That then is an option for us, the Māori people, lest only the Pākehā make money and it is said that Māori are no good at growing wheat.

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Synonyms: moni

hōhonu te pūkoro

1. (stative) deep pocket, wealthy, having lots of money - an idiom.

Kei pōhēhē koe he pōhara ia. He hōhonu tana pūkoro. / Don't be mistaken in thinking that she is poor. She's wealthy.

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pūranga moni

1. (loan) (noun) fund, sum of money.

Koia rā i titiro ai ngā Mema Māori i roto i te Pāremata ki ētahi pūranga moni a te iwi Māori kei ngā ringa o ngā Poari, o te Kaitiaki Māori hoki (TTT 1/8/1923:5). / That's why the Māori Members in Parliament looked at some funds of the Māori people that are in the hands of the Boards and the Māori Trustee.

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moni oranga

1. (loan) (noun) benefit (money), maintenance.

Ko tēnei e mea ana te whakaaro kia waiho ētahi o ngā moni e puta mai ana i runga i ngā whenua o te hāhi hei moni oranga mō tētahi whare whakaakoranga i ngā Māori (TWMNT 25/1/1876:13). / It was proposed to devote some of the funds derived from the church's properties as maintenance of an educational institution for the Māori.

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wāwāhinga

1. (noun) breach.

Nō te tau 1924 ka tau atu a ia ki reira ki te whakatakoto i te petihana a te iwi Māori mō ngā wāwāhinga ture Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Ara 2015). / He landed there in 1924 to present the petition of the Māori people protesting breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi.

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2. (noun) change (money), division, breaking down, decomposition.

moni

1. (loan) (modifier) monetary, financial, money, cash.

I maua atu e ia he pūtea moni i tōna ringa (PT Whakatauki 7:20). / He hath taken a bag of money with him.

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2. (loan) (noun) money, cash.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 48;)

He kai, he taonga rānei te koha i ngā wā o mua, engari, ko te moni kē i ēnei rā. / Food or gifts were koha in the past but these days it's money.

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Synonyms: herengi

moni kuhu

1. (loan) (noun) deposit (a sum of money).

Ko tā te ripanga kaute, he whakarārangi i ngā moni tango me ngā moni kuhu o tētahi pūtea pēke, me te whakaatu anō i te tapeke pūtea (TRP 2010:215). / The purpose of a balance sheet is to list the withdrawals and deposits of a bank account, and to show the account balance.

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moni pūkoro

1. (loan) (noun) pocket money, allowance.

Hoatu ai te kuia i ngā moni pūkoro ki ana mokopuna tokorua i ia wiki, i ia wiki. / Each week the elderly woman gives pocket money to her two grandchildren.

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moni i kore

1. more money than sense - an idiom.

Nāwai i kore moni, kua moni i kore. / Initially no money, and now more money than sense.

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mahi

1. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to work, do, perform, make, accomplish, practise, raise (money).

Kei te taka mai ngā rā e mahia nuitia ai e te Pākehā te mahi whakamaroke me te mahi tini i te paramu me ērā atu huarākau (TP 12/1905:7). / The days are approaching when Pākehā will be busy drying and canning plums and other fruit.

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Synonyms: whakatutuki, whakaakoako, parakitihi, haratau, whakawai, whakahāngai, whakaharatau, akoako, hangahanga, whakahangahanga, whaihanga, hanga, āhua, mea, waihanga, whakarite, tapa, whakaatu, whakaataata, whakahua, whakahaere, whakatūtū, hahaka, haka


2. (noun) work, job, employment, trade (work), practice, occupation, activity, exercise, operation, function.

Kei te taka mai ngā rā e mahia nuitia ai e te Pākehā te mahi whakamaroke me te mahi tini i te paramu me ērā atu huarākau (TP 12/1905:7). / The days are approaching when Pākehā will be busy drying and canning plums and other fruit.

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Synonyms: umanga, whakatāuteute, whakahaerenga, whakahaere


3. (noun) abundance, lots of, many, heaps of.

(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 113;)

Kua kapi taua wāhi i te mahi a te whare. / That place was covered with lots of houses.
I ētahi tau he tino kaha kē te hua o ngā piki nei, ā, he tino reka hoki mō te kai. I ētahi rā, i te haere kē mātau, hoki rawa mai kua pau ngā hua te kai i te mahi a te tamariki (HP 1991:13). / In some years these fig trees fruited prolifically and they were very tasty to eat. Some days, when we went elsewhere, when we returned the fruit had all been eaten by the many children.

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See also te mahi a te ...

Synonyms: ngerongero, ngero, tokomaha, te mahi a te ..., tōnuitanga, maruru, ngahue, maha, makuru, nui, makurutanga, hira, huhua, huhuatanga, humi, pukahu, rahinga, ranea, kaipukahu, harahara, te hanga a te, takitini, hia, wene, mahamaha, tuarea, marea, tuauriuri, pio, tini

mīhini moni

1. (loan) (noun) money machine, ATM (automated teller machine).

pakaru [te] pūkoro

1. broke, having no money - an idiom.

Kua pakaru taku pūkoro. / I'm broke.

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pūtea moni

1. (loan) (noun) sum of money, fund, account.

E kī ana ia ka nui te moni kei Niu Tīreni. Kei te puhake ngā pūtea moni katoa o te motu (TTT 1/8/1929: 1037). / He is saying that New Zealand has plenty of money. All the country's accounts are full to overflowing.

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Synonyms: kaute, kōrero, whakamārama, pire

tahua

1. (noun) heap - especially of food at a feast.

Te take o tēnei puha, i hapa i te kai, arā, i te wāwāhanga o te tahua (JPS 1901:76). / The reason for this war dance was that they made an error with the food, that is with the dividing up of the food of the feast.

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2. (noun) fund, sum of money, finances.

He tangata māhorahora noa nei ia ki te whaikōrero, kitea ake ana hoki tōna hihiri ki ngā mahi tahua (TTR 2000:102). / He was a natural orator and his acumen at financial work was evident.

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3. (noun) budget.

Ko ngā hua o te wā kore mahi o 1920–21, £20,000 te moni i tapahia mai i te tahua a te Tari o te Ora (TTR 1996:144). / As a result of the 1920–21 recession the Health Department's budget was cut by £20,000.

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4. (noun) menu (computers).

Whakatuwheratia te tahua (LP 2017). / Open menu (LP 2017).

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whakaputu

1. (verb) (-a,-ria,-tia) to lie in a heap, lie one upon another, pile up, stack.

Kātahi ka kohikohia ngā kōhatu nei ka whakaputu haeretia kia āhua teitei mai i tētahi taha o te awa ki waenganui, ka waiho (HP 1991:15). / Then these rocks were collected and stacked up until they were quite high from one side of the river to the middle, and then left.

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Synonyms: tōhīhī, whakapipi, whakatahua, tōhī, whakarae, whakaahu, kāuki, tāwheta, tāwhetawheta, pīhangaiti, haipū, pūkai, , haupū, pūranga, pūkei, putu, tihi, kāika, pūhangaiti, kāike


2. (verb) (-a,-ria,-tia) to deposit, store, save (money, etc.).

Ko ngā moni kua kohia me whakaputu ki te pēke, ā ko te itarete kia £20 pea hei kawe i te tamaiti mōhio ki Te Aute (TP 8/1900:3). / The money that has been collected should be deposited in the bank, and the interest, perhaps £20, should be used to send an intelligent child to Te Aute.

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Synonyms: kauika, whakaahu, whakapū, taipū, pūkainga, tōhīanga, purawhetū, whakarae, kōputu, pūhanga, pūkei, putunga, whakarauika, whakapipi, whārona, pūkai, whakaputunga, haupū


3. (modifier) piling up, storing, saving, raising.

Āwhina ana ia i te mahi whakaputu moni mō te Pakanga Tuarua o Te Ao, whakahaere rā i ngā mahi whakaaturanga hīkoi (TTR 2000:199). / She helped with fund-raising for the Second World War, organising marching exhibitions.

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Synonyms: whakarauora, whakatūtū, whakatupu, hīanga, hutinga, huti, whakatipu, whakapiki, whakareinga


4. (noun) storing, saving, depositing, archiving.

Kua tirotirohia te waihanga o te tangata hei take ako i ngā tākuta. Engari ko tōna taha e kīia nei he taonga nō te ao, tōna tipunga mai, noho ā-whānau, noho ā-hapū, noho ā-iwi, noho ā-iwi-nunui, ā rātou nei mahi e tohunga ai rātou, te whanaungatanga o tētahi iwi ki tētahi iwi, te whakarōpū i ngā iwi o te ao, te tīmatanga mai o te noho pā o te tangata, te tīmatanga mai o te mātauranga ki te tuhituhi, me te whakaputu kōrero (TTT 1/8/1925:273). / Human physiology has been studied in order to instruct doctors. But in conjunction with that are the studies of the treasures of the world, human development, how families, subtribes, tribes and nations live, their development of skills, intertribal relationships, groupings of the peoples of the world, the beginning of people living in fortified places, the origins of writing, and the archiving of knowledge.

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pūtea

1. (noun) finely woven bag.

Ka kohia atu hoki e mātou, e ngā wāhine me ngā tamariki, ngā kōhatu noa, ngā tarutaru noa, ka hoatu ki aua tupua, he kōhatu i paingia, ā, ka kohia ki ā rātou pūtea, he mea i makaa ko ngā tarutaru me ngā peka rākau i hoatu (Wh4 2004:135). / We, the women and children, collected stones and vegetation randomly and gave them to those strange beings. They liked the stones and put them in their finely woven bags, but the grasses and branches of trees that we gave them were thrown away.

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2. (noun) fund, finance, bank account, sum of money.

Hei penapena i te pūtea, i kī atu ia he pai kē ake tana haere mā runga waka ā-mahi i te haere mā runga tekehī (TTR 1998:102). / In order to save money, she said that it would be better if she travelled by service car rather than by taxi.

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Synonyms: pūtea pēke

tāmana

1. (loan) (verb) (-tia) to summons.

Kei te whakaae te Komiti o Tūwharetoa kia tāmanatia e rātou ki te Hupirīmi Kōti, kāore te Komiti o Tūwharetoa i te wehi (TW 27/7/1878:11/379). / The Tūwharetoa Committee agrees that the matter be summonsed to the Supreme Court, and the Tūwharetoa Committee is not afraid.

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2. (loan) (noun) summons, writ.

Ko ngā tāngata i kakama ki te tāmana... (TW 12/2/1875:4). / The people that were quick to respond to the summons were...

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3. (loan) (noun) pledge (of money and allegiance).

Nā, kua tae mai te tāmana ki a au, nō Hauraki £10, nō Tauranga £15, neke atu Ahuriri, neke atu Pōrangahau, neke atu Te Wairoa, neke atu Wairarapa, nōna anō te tikanga (MM.TKM 5/2/1862:19). / I have received as pledges from Hauraki £10, from Tauranga £15; also further on from Ahuriri, from Pōrangahau, Te Wairoa, and Wairarapa: all of their own accord.

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tīni

1. (loan) (verb) (-tia) to change, amend.

Kotahi te Māori e tīni ana i tōna moni, homai ana e te Pākehā te tīni (TJ 11/5/1899:13). / There was a Māori changing his money, and the Pākehā gave the change.

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2. (loan) (noun) change (money).

Kotahi te Māori e tīni ana i tōna moni, homai ana e te Pākehā te tīni (TJ 11/5/1899:13). / There was a Māori changing his money, a Pākehā gave the change.

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noho nama

1. (verb) to be in debt to, indebted, owe.

Ka hē kē atu hoki i te matenga o Robert Jones, te tangata nāna te toa, e noho nama nui nei te tokomaha o Tūwharetoa ki a ia (TTR 1998:199). / Everything went wrong as a result of the death of Robert Jones, the store owner, with whom many of Tūwharetoa was heavily indebted.

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Synonyms: nama

hake ukauka

1. (noun) cash register.

Ka wehewehe ngā tāra katoa ki te hake ukauka. / All the cash was sorted into the cash register.

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