play money

Toy cash bills

Play money is fake currency used in games or for practice—Monopoly bills, toy cash registers, training exercises.

It has no real purchasing power.

Figuratively, play money refers to funds treated casually, as if losing them wouldn't matter: To billionaires, a million dollars is play money.

imitation

Monopoly

Property trading board game

prop · novelty · toy · replica · facsimile · stage · film · costume · party · gag

educational

counting

Determining quantity sequentially

arithmetic · budgeting · finance · economics · classroom · allowance · savings · coins · bills · currency

Categories
Opposites
legal validity

play moneylegal tender

Officially recognized payment medium

real money · cash · hard currency · fiat currency · banknotes

seriousness of context

play moneyserious money

Large sums of cash

life savings · rent money · investment capital · blood money · venture capital

Family

play, money, moneyed, monetary, monies, monetize, monetization, monetizing, monetise

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G