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dollarchaser

dollarchaser noun: someone who fervently pursues money or wealth.

Noun

dollarchaser (plural dollarchasers)

  1. (dated, figuratively, rare) Someone who fervently pursues money or wealth.
    • In our day and generation, when the world is afflicted with so many mountebanks, dollarchasers, and society worshippers in the pupit - Rev. Young Sprouts who are more concerned with the cut of their coat.1909, John M. Dorney, “The Parson's Secret”, in The Bridgemen's Magazine, volume 9, page 356
    • No! No! - she had stopped caring for him - if she ever had cared - because he was unworthy of her, he, the mere dollarchaser.1913, David Graham Phillips, Degarmo's Wife, And Other Stories, page 179

Forms of dollarchaser

pluraldollarchasers

Origin of dollarchaser

From dollar + chaser.

Questions about dollarchaser

What does dollarchaser mean?
Dollarchaser means someone who fervently pursues money or wealth.
What part of speech is dollarchaser?
Dollarchaser is a noun.
What is the plural of dollarchaser?
The plural of dollarchaser is dollarchasers.

Words near dollarchaser in the dictionary

  1. dollaraires
  2. dollarbird
  3. dollarbirds
  4. dollarbuck
  5. dollarbucks
  6. dollarchaser
  7. dollarchasers
  8. Dollard
  9. Dollard-des-Ormeaux
  10. dollardee
  11. dollardees

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