单词 | money-hunter |
释义 | > as lemmasmoney-hunter money-hunter n. a person who seeks to obtain money; (spec. in early use) †= money-digger n. (obsolete). ΚΠ 1729 B. Franklin in Amer. Weekly Mercury 20 Mar. 2/2 Astrologers..are often consulted about the critical Times for Digging, the Methods of laying the Spirit, and the like Whimseys, which renders them very necessary to and very much caress'd by the poor deluded Money-hunters. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Let. Sept. (1966) 244 These people..bring up their sons with only just enough learning to qualify them for over-lookers during their father's lifetime and greedy grasping money-hunters after his death. 1987 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 10 July e2 What's particularly attractive to federal money hunters about this, the report indicates, is that it raises big money fast. < as lemmas |
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