12 Mar 2004 | Chris from Scottsdale said...

Object considered valuable by the populus, used to exchange goods.

12 Mar 2004 | Ben Scofield said...

Objects (real or otherwise) that represent real value.

12 Mar 2004 | huphtur said...

greed

12 Mar 2004 | Chris said...

A mutually agreed upon unit of value in a transaction.

12 Mar 2004 | Brad Hurley said...

Something that can be used to buy a microwave oven.

12 Mar 2004 | Paul said...

Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

12 Mar 2004 | Daniel X. O'Neil said...

medium of exchange for goods and services in the marketplace

12 Mar 2004 | mike said...

paper product that can be exchanged for goods and services

12 Mar 2004 | Steven Garrity said...

Mo' money, mo' problems.

12 Mar 2004 | jarv75 said...

A way of exchanging goods for something of equal value.

or...

Objects which have universally recognised value, used to exchange goods.

Mmmm tricky.

12 Mar 2004 | Benjy said...

Standardized objects of defined values exchanged for goods and services

12 Mar 2004 | Graham said...

Shared abstraction of value, instantiated for ease of exchange.

Or,
You know ... *rubs fingers together*

12 Mar 2004 | Peter Davidson said...

Something of value I don't really don't have enough of.

12 Mar 2004 | but that's just me said...

the love of which is the root of all evil

12 Mar 2004 | JF said...

Something that can be used to buy a microwave oven.

Damn, Brad's on to it!

12 Mar 2004 | Matthew Oliphant said...

1) Instantiation of fulfilled agreements replacing bartering with goods or services.

2) Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty.

12 Mar 2004 | Don Schenck said...

A tradeable token of life energy.

12 Mar 2004 | RS said...

Unit of account with store of value used for exchange.

12 Mar 2004 | steve said...

a four star daydream

12 Mar 2004 | JF said...

"Stuff" that makes trading goods and services efficient and easy.

12 Mar 2004 | VB said...

A medium for symbolic representation of goods or services's value.

12 Mar 2004 | Jake Walker said...

medium for exchange of goods, services; measure of their values

12 Mar 2004 | blakems said...

It will cost you.

12 Mar 2004 | Dane said...

received from services rendered - goes to utility/mortgage companies (& IRS).

12 Mar 2004 | Ben said...

An item that you cannot buy love with.

12 Mar 2004 | andi said...

Widely recognized fungible portable store of value, easily exchanged.

12 Mar 2004 | HomerSimpson said...

Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts.

12 Mar 2004 | monju said...

Barter proxy.

12 Mar 2004 | boyhowdy said...

Culturally recognized symbol infrastructure for trade value and comparative worth.

12 Mar 2004 | sandor said...

Em oh en ee why. The goal of The Apprentice.

12 Mar 2004 | dayment said...

Used to obtain booze.

12 Mar 2004 | Arne G said...

Measure wealth using this (exchangeable for goods). Do not lose!

12 Mar 2004 | Amy Sakurai said...

measure of value,
commonly accepted script --
again i have none.

12 Mar 2004 | Jim Kloss said...

Time.

13 Mar 2004 | joe trip said...

have or have not

13 Mar 2004 | max said...

cash rules everything around me.
a.k.a.
C.R.E.A.M.

13 Mar 2004 | Noah said...

Socially agreed-upon objects that represent worth for market purposes.

13 Mar 2004 | sharad said...

Unit of measure and a medium of exchange for any commercial transaction.

13 Mar 2004 | SimbaV said...

The carrot most people are running after all their life.

OR:

Catch me if you can !

13 Mar 2004 | Michael Bernstein said...

Consensual medium of exchange, composed of fungible stored value units.

14 Mar 2004 | Peter said...

1) wallet-thickening ratty rectangles of government-issued delusion increaser

2) unfairly distributed energy surrogate and superiority verification system

14 Mar 2004 | F.Baube said...

Massive shared hallucination. (Remaining seven words for sale, inquire within.)

15 Mar 2004 | Doyle said...

I love this concept - might be cool as a site with a daily "explain ______ in 10 words or less".

Last time I checked (a few minutes ago) the domains 10wordsorless.com and tenwordsorless.com are available.

Just an idea...

15 Mar 2004 | Amy Sakurai said...

As has been pointed out once by another person (James), the proper grammar is "...10 words or fewer." However, I imagine that common usage will prevail. :P

15 Mar 2004 | Mark said...

Bit of paper or bytes online you swap for stuff

15 Mar 2004 | Charlie said...

Small green pieces of paper that are not unhappy.

16 Mar 2004 | scottbp said...

A way of measuring time

17 Mar 2004 | Seth Gordon said...

"Anything that the government accepts as payment of taxes." (originator: Kevin "Calpundit" Drum)

18 Mar 2004 | xian said...

A symbolic means of exchange used to commodify time.

18 Mar 2004 | Chris Patterson said...

that which a lack of causes bill collectors to call

19 Mar 2004 | Filip Salomonsson said...

To whom, in what context, and with what purpose?

21 Mar 2004 | Warren said...

A financial instrument which could once be redeemed for gold.

22 Mar 2004 | Jeffrey said...

The way I'm able to obtain most things I desire.

23 Mar 2004 | Noah said...

Valueless tokens issued by sovereign authority as an exchange medium .

23 Mar 2004 | Noah said...

Unimportant.

24 Mar 2004 | HadduFish said...

Well, if you don't know what it is, can I have yours?