单词 | ready-moneyed |
释义 | ready-moneyedadj. Now rare. 1. Possessing ready money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [adjective] moneyed1457 pursed1602 flush1603 ready-moneyed1688 pennied1806 1688 in Acts Island of Barbados (1764) 123 The Marshalls have set the said Negroes..in great lots or numbers to be sold; so that only ready monied and rich men are able to buy them. 1729 R. Bradley Philos. Enq. Late Severe Winter 14 The ready-money'd Men supposing there would be a Scarcity, ingross'd all the Corn they could take up. 1810 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 314/1 Mr. Elwes is, perhaps, the richest ready-moneyed commoner in England. a1859 W. Irving Devil & Tom Walker in Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. (1888) 31 Dec. His reputation for a ready moneyed man, who would lend money out for a good consideration, soon spread abroad. 1939 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 412 Some talk-able solicitor or agency executive has contacted him and at last convinced him that..the individual components of this group are ready-moneyed, or able-to-buy heads of families. 2. Of, relating to, or suggestive of ready money; present, real, dependable, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [adjective] > ready money or cash readya1400 dry1574 running1662 ready money1671 ready-moneyed1757 tractile1892 1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. ii. 48 When our ready-monied Policy puts a Stop to this Torrent of Evils, we may readily expect every Blessing. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. xi. 218 Giving ready-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured. View more context for this quotation 1961 Times 9 Feb. 15/6 Heinrich Heine..was moved to exclaim that he would fain see prodigious vice and bloody crime before him, if only he need not see smug and ready moneyed respectability. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1688 |
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