moneyless
Lacking any currency
Moneyless means without money—either temporarily broke or, more often, describing systems that operate without currency.
A moneyless economy relies on barter, sharing, or gift exchange rather than cash transactions.
They spent a moneyless week camping in the wilderness.
Extremely poor, lacking necessities
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- destituteUtterly without means
- needyWanting in essentials
- homelessWithout a dwelling
bankrupt · insolvent · beggar · pauper · vagrant · down-and-out · dispossessed · beggared
Lacking any funds
- empty-handedPossessing nothing to show
- strappedLacking available funds
- unpaidNot yet compensated
- indebtedOwing thanks or money
uncompensated · unremunerated · stone-broke · busted · short · skint · hard-up
Direct goods-for-goods exchange
- tradeExchange of commodities
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- swapExchange one for another
- sharingDividing among others
cooperative · communal · reciprocity · in-kind · resource-based · freecycle · potlatch · commons
Insufficiency of something needed
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- wantTo desire something
- privationLack of necessities
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
penury · indigence · struggle · survival · adversity · suffering · desperation · subsistence
Lacking financial support
- unsupportedLacking backing or proof
- unsubsidizedNot financially supported
- unbackedWithout financial or moral support
- unsponsoredLacking financial patronage
unbudgeted · uncapitalized · unendowed · uninvested · unappropriated · unprovided · unallocated · unpatronized
indigent
Extremely poor, lacking necessities
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- destituteUtterly without means
- needyWanting in essentials
homeless · bankrupt · insolvent · beggar · pauper · vagrant · down-and-out · dispossessed · beggared · pauperized
broke
Lacking any funds
- empty-handedPossessing nothing to show
- strappedLacking available funds
- unpaidNot yet compensated
indebted · uncompensated · unremunerated · stone-broke · busted · short · skint · hard-up
barter
Direct goods-for-goods exchange
sharing · cooperative · communal · reciprocity · in-kind · resource-based · freecycle · potlatch · commons · collective
scarcity
Insufficiency of something needed
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- wantTo desire something
- privationLack of necessities
austerity · penury · indigence · struggle · survival · adversity · suffering · desperation · subsistence · starvation
unfinanced
Lacking financial support
- unsupportedLacking backing or proof
- unsubsidizedNot financially supported
- unbackedWithout financial or moral support
unsponsored · unbudgeted · uncapitalized · unendowed · uninvested · unappropriated · unprovided · unallocated · unpatronized · unmonetized
- povertypoor, impoverished, destitution, needy, destitute
moneylessmoneyed
Having substantial wealth
wealthy · rich · affluent · prosperous · monied
money, poverty, penniless, monetary, impecunious, moneymaker, cashless, monetize