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money-guards

money-guards is the plural of money-guard.

Meaning of money-guard

Noun

money-guard (plural money-guards)

  1. A person who guards money for someone else, often to prevent it from being spent on unscheduled needs.
    • Hamid himself also used a money-guard, storing $8 with his employer while waiting for an opportunity to send it down to the family home.2010, Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, →ISBN, page 9
    Synonyms:
    money-keeper

Questions about money-guards

What is money-guards the plural of?
Money-guards is the plural of money-guard.

Words near money-guards in the dictionary

  1. money-grabbing
  2. money-grubber
  3. money-grubbers
  4. money-grubbing
  5. money-guard
  6. money-guards
  7. money-hungry
  8. money-in-both-pockets
  9. money-lender
  10. money-lenders
  11. money-loser

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